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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:35:08 +1300
From:      Greville Whittle <greville@paradise.net.nz>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 on second hard drive...
Message-ID:  <4.3.1.1.20010216100059.00a7c9a0@pop3.paradise.net.nz>

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Hi,
      I recently picked up a copy of freebsd 4.0 to try out. I went about 
trying to install it on my Pentium 166. I wanted to make the system a dual 
boot win95 and freebsd system, with windows on the first drive and freebsd 
on the second.

The install seemed to go well, the program said that if I was running a 
dual boot system there would be an option to install a bootmanager later as 
part of the post install configuration. There was no option to do this and 
although the installation seemed to go well I cannot boot into freebsd.

  I looked on the install cd and it had a small program called 
'bootinst.exe' that could fix this kind of problem. However when I ran it 
produced the following error 'unable to write boot.bin'. There was a second 
boot manager on the cd called 'osbs' but it could only see my windows disk....

Can somebody please help me with this problem....

Cheers
Grev:)



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