From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 17:41:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119B016A451 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:41:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FD243D1D for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:41:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:42:00 +0100 Message-ID: <42B6FFBF.9000605@dial.pipex.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:41:19 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050530 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Sher References: <000801c575bb$bcb3a0b0$6401a8c0@dell1> <42B6FD0D.9070001@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <42B6FD0D.9070001@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jun 2005 17:42:00.0740 (UTC) FILETIME=[5CE14E40:01C575BF] Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: After Install -- Where is FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:41:23 -0000 Benjamin Sher wrote: >> Dear friends: >> All that's missing now is FreeBSD. After completing my install, I >> exited. FreeBSD exited normally, then rebooted. But no sign of >> FreeBSD. Instead, Windows came up. I do recall choosing to have a >> boot manager but never actually saw the screen and boot-up options. >> So, I went back into Free BSD by switching back to the CD in my Bios, >> but that's as far as I dare go on my own. What should I do? Am I >> missing something? > I don't know why the boot manager isn't installed, but it's very easy to install it again. Boot from the CD, select Post Installation Config, then select the disk Label editor. Pick the first slice and make it bootable (S) then W to write you changes and you are asked if you want to install the boot manager. Say yes. Quit out and reboot, taking out the CD. While I'm getting things to work I usually leave the floppy and CD as BIOS boot options before the hard disk. Once I know it all works, I fix the BIOS to look for the disk first. If you don't have a bootable CD or floppy in the drive, then the system boots from disk. This is from memory, but I'm pretty sure it's correct. As long as you do nothing other than making a slice bootable, then you should do no damage. --Alex