Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:00:02 -0400 From: William O'Higgins <yam@nerd.cx> To: lists <lists@dlfws.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop booting issue - RESOLVED Message-ID: <20030911170002.GA446@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3F5FE40E.1020301@dlfws.net> References: <20030910130210.GA456@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <3F5FE40E.1020301@dlfws.net>
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:55:10PM -0700, lists wrote: >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. >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? I fixed the issue by installing Windows (XP this time) first, then FreeBSD, and I can now boot to either one from the boot menu. Thanks to everyone. -- yours, William nerd.cx
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