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Date:      Sat, 16 Jul 2005 08:39:15 -0500
From:      Gunter Wambaugh <unixgeek@six-two.net>
To:        e-mail for freebsd <freebsd@weruhl.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot loader
Message-ID:  <B809DAB7-160F-423D-9A57-82C478E75A20@six-two.net>
In-Reply-To: <200507160653.j6G6r5D0086280@weruhl.com>
References:  <200507160653.j6G6r5D0086280@weruhl.com>

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On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:53 AM, e-mail for freebsd wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 (from CD) onto a ThinkPad A21.  I also  
> have
> Win2Kpro on this laptop.  FreeBSD is installed at about the 7G mark  
> on the
> harddrive.
>
> I had 4.3 installed previously, and thought I would just start  
> over.  Howver,
> when the laptop boots, I get the f1 DOS f2 Freebsd prompt, but I  
> can't boot
> FreeBSD.  Win2K boots just fine.
>
> I tried a number of things:
> 1) re-installing
> 2) fixmbf (win2K utility to restore the mbr)
>
> With no success.  Any words of wisdom would be welcome.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
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>

I had a similar problem last week.  I had FreeBSD on the first  
partition and Gentoo on the second, and couldn't boot to Gentoo.  I  
was able to resolve my issue by doing:
$ boot0cfg -o packet ad4

Thats from memory, so viewing the boot0cfg man page would be a good  
idea.
HTH



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