From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 9: 3: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hole.noc.iafrica.com (hole.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7480215133 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 09:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robh@hole.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from robh (helo=localhost) by hole.noc.iafrica.com with local-smtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11kVho-0003Y4-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Nov 1999 19:02:16 +0200 Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 19:02:16 +0200 (SAT) From: Rob Hunter X-Sender: robh@hole.noc.iafrica.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with dual boot (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Resending ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 01:31:33 +0200 (SAT) From: Rob Hunter To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with dual boot Hi > IIRC, the choice of boot manager is wa-ay at the begining of the > install process when you are doing the disk slicing and partitioning. > > After this, I get my 2 options when booting, and am > > told to press F3 to boot FreeBSD. Yup, I think it's in the initial sysinstall screens. It asks which boot manager. There's 3 options. Install FreeBSD boot manager, leave boot record unchanged and i can't remember the third. > OK, you say that FreeBSD is slice 2 of 3. But you get two choices at > boot time, and the choices are 'F1' and 'F3'? Yup, and only F1 works, F3 i get a beep and nothing. > Huh? Not sure what that is. it's another boot manager that comes with the cd, and it's available on the ftp mirrors aswell. Nicer than the normal FreeBSD boot manager. > Could you show us the fdisk output? Are any of the slices "extended > partitions?" yup dos fdisk output: Partition Status Type Vol label Mbytes System c: 1 PRI DOS WIN98 4001 FAT32 2 A Non-DOS 3561 3 EXT DOS 12002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logical DOS Drive Information Drv Vol Label Mbytes System Usage d: 12002 FAT32 100% When playing with the different options in os-bs, I tried setting the Active partition to FreeBSD and Win98 partitions, but it didn't work. I've done this type of setup quite a few times before, but i've never had so many partitions when doing it... Any help appreciated Regards --Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message