Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:48:03 +1100 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>, Victoria Steblina <v-steblina@adfa.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot into FreeBSD Message-ID: <00030920501400.00387@freebsd.freebsd.org> References: <200003080230.SAA36980@cytosine.dhs.org>
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Sadly, I do have a duel partition with Win95 because a majority of people are Win95/98 users and I need to use it for support and testing purposes. But I haven't touched it in 3 months. In regards to your question Not you don't hit the 3 key but like f3 or f1. On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote: > 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 > > -- > > > > Dr. Victoria Steblina > > Programmer/Research Associate > > School of Mathematics & Statistics > > Australian Defence Force Academy > > TEL: +61 2 6268 8464 > > FAX: +61 2 6268 8886 > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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