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Date:      Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:30:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
To:        Victoria Steblina <v-steblina@adfa.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't boot into FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200003080230.SAA36980@cytosine.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <200003080150.LAA01251@groucho.ma.adfa.edu.au> from Victoria Steblina at "Mar 8, 2000 11:50:54 am"

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I used to have a dual boot a long time ago, so forgive me if I'm wrong....

But, don't you just have to hit the number 3, not the F key?

--bhishan

> 
> Dear everyone,
> 
> I did a multiple OS installation of FreeBSD on a free partition 
> that was left from Windows 98. I have a large disk where the 1st
> partition is FAT (C:\, bootable), then extended (logical drives
> D,E,F) and then the freebsd partition. I asked for the boot manager,
> and I can see the F1 -DOS and F3 -freebsd dual boot prompt on the
> screen, but only F1 key is active and boots into Windows 98.
> The F3 key isn't active - beeps and does nothing. 
> 
> I didn't have any error messages during the installation. 
> Can anyone help me fix that somehow?
> 
> Thanks heaps for any suggestions,
> Victoria
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