Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:55:10 -0700 From: lists <lists@dlfws.net> To: William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop booting issue Message-ID: <3F5FE40E.1020301@dlfws.net> In-Reply-To: <20030910130210.GA456@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> References: <20030910130210.GA456@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org>
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William O'Higgins wrote: >I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X. The install seemed >to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices >- F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD. There is nothing on the DOS partition, so I want > to press F2. > >There isn't any response however. If I hit F1 it tries to boot the >remnants of the previous OS (Win98), but if I hit F2 I get squat. > >Does this ring any bells for anyone? Or should I just install Windoze >first (I have to dual-boot :-( ) and then try again? Any input would be >appreciated. Thanks. > > Hi William, You should install Win98 first, FreeBSD second. Win98 will overwrite the boot manager installed by BSD and you'll have to reinstall ( provided that you're using the boot manager. ). I have setup a bunch of dual boot systems ( various win versions & FreeBSD ) and never ran into the problem you are having. Did you do a custom install or the default one? Can you give any further details of what you did during the install? Thanatos ( lists@dlfws.net )
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