Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:11:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Mahesh (cont-AMKHARE) Bhaskarpandit" <mbhaskar@us.oracle.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about BSD installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980416161023.7393K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804162150.OAA13948@mailsun3>
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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Mahesh (cont-AMKHARE) Bhaskarpandit wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 on my PC, in one of the partitions on a new > disk. The details of the disks are: > > Disk Number Drive Size OS > ----------- ----- ----- --- > > 1 C: 1.2 GB Windows 95 > > 2 D: 500 MB DOS > 2575 MB Free BSD OKay, good. > The second disk is divided into two partitions and in the second > partition, FreeBSD in installed. Using the disk partition editor, > I have made both the partitions in the second disk active (by > pressing 's'). I have chosen to install the Boot manager provided > as part of the software. But when I boot the machine, I don't get > any choice to choose between BSD and Windows 95. According to the > documentation, it is supposed to show something like: > > F1 : Windows > F2 : bsd > > The machine always goes on to boot Windows 95. How can I get to boot > into BSD? Please let me know what I need to do. You need to install booteasy to the first disk manually. Grab bootinst.exe and boot.bin from the CD or FTP site in tools/ then run bootinst from DOS. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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