Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 02:40:15 -0800 From: "David Schultz" <vvortex1@home.com> To: "Jarungwit BOONPERM" <bjarungw@bunga.pn.psu.ac.th> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problem about FreeBSD-4.2. Message-ID: <001601c07bba$e2731420$0100a8c0@mshome.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0101111545020.4144-100000@bunga.pn.psu.ac.th>
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> But when reboot computer It show message below. > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 1 > Default: F1 If the Boot Manager is, in fact, being installed, then the problem most likely is not with FreeBSD. (Nevertheless, it is not possible to install the boot manager by selecting a "Standard" boot record during installation unless 4.2 has some bizarre bug that I'm not aware of.) I assume that you have some other operating system that you're trying to boot on your first hard drive and it isn't showing up. First of all, I should note that if the OS is on a different hard drive, you need to press F5 to see it. The OS also needs to be on a visible, bootable partition as well, and I'm pretty sure that FreeBSD's boot manager does not support OS's in extended partitions. Unless you have more than four operating systems on your computer, this should not be an issue. If you do have some odd setup like an extended partition, you may need a more advanced boot manager. I personally like Ranish Partition Manager [http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/]. The source would need much modification to work under FreeBSD, so you will need a bootable DOS diskette to install it. Partition Magic also comes with a good (albeit non-free) boot manager, but it requires Windows to install and a DOS partition to hold its massive, clunky GUI. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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