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Date:      Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:05:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        Beauford <beauford.2002@rogers.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Dual Boot - Win98 / FreeBSD 4.3 - Problems
Message-ID:  <20020304220057.S91555-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
In-Reply-To: <000201c1c41f$97098ba0$6401a8c0@pr.phub.net.cable.rogers.com>

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Make sure you first boot up to FreeBSD floppies (which runs a variant of
/stand/sysinstall) and in the first screen, choose "Custom" then the
"Partition" choice.  If you have "slices" that are bootable, make sure you
arrow-down to them and hit "s" to make them bootable.  The next screen will
ask you about Boot Manager options.  My system, for example, has a boot up
screen for about 5 seconds that says:

F1 DOS
F2 FreeBSD
F3 FreeBSD
F4 FreeBSD

And if you don't hit one of those keys quickly enough, it just boots the
last one you chose.  I've abandoned Win98SR1 so I'm just keeping the DOS
slice around until I can migrate my data and files over :)

P.S. This process may be much more grievsome with multiple HD's, not just
partitions so I apologize if this info is useless.

--
Peter Leftwich
President & Founder
Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
+1-413-403-9555

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> Hi, I have a Intel 700 with two HD's. I have 98 installed on the primary
> partition on my first HD and have installed FreeBSD on the primary
> partition the 2nd HD. Everything went according to plan, and I chose to
> install the boot manager, but when I boot I don't get the boot manager,
> it goes right into Windows. Notes: I have a DOS extended partition on my
> 2nd HD as well. I also installed Partition Magics boot manager and when
> I start it it says "Error #15 building partition list on disk 0" - it
> repeats it for disk 1 as well. It might not be a FreeBSD error, but
> everything seems to be working fine. I'm sure if I booted from a floppy
> FreeBSD would boot - I just ran out of time to try it.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.


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