From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 19:55:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8579416A4BF for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D973F43FBF for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:55:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@dlfws.net) Received: from adsl-63-204-250-109.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO dlfws.net) (the?freak@sbcglobal.net@63.204.250.109 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2003 02:55:12 -0000 Message-ID: <3F5FE40E.1020301@dlfws.net> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:55:10 -0700 From: lists User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William O'Higgins References: <20030910130210.GA456@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030910130210.GA456@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop booting issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 02:55:15 -0000 William O'Higgins wrote: >I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X. The install seemed >to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices >- F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD. There is nothing on the DOS partition, so I want > to press F2. > >There isn't any response however. If I hit F1 it tries to boot the >remnants of the previous OS (Win98), but if I hit F2 I get squat. > >Does this ring any bells for anyone? Or should I just install Windoze >first (I have to dual-boot :-( ) and then try again? Any input would be >appreciated. Thanks. > > Hi William, You should install Win98 first, FreeBSD second. Win98 will overwrite the boot manager installed by BSD and you'll have to reinstall ( provided that you're using the boot manager. ). I have setup a bunch of dual boot systems ( various win versions & FreeBSD ) and never ran into the problem you are having. Did you do a custom install or the default one? Can you give any further details of what you did during the install? Thanatos ( lists@dlfws.net )