From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 0:14:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.WPI.EDU (smtp.WPI.EDU [130.215.24.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83DC037C2A1 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:14:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dloose@WPI.EDU) Received: from ernie.WPI.EDU (root@ernie.WPI.EDU [130.215.24.122]) by smtp.WPI.EDU (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7G7Brk06130 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 03:11:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (dloose@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ernie.WPI.EDU (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7G7C4c05976 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 03:12:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 03:12:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with BootMgr 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 Hey, I just got a new computer and I decided that I wanted to try to get some form of UNIX to work on it. I downloaded FreeBSD because a friend recommended it (I got the 4.0-install.iso file and burned it). Anyway, after a considerable amount of reading I managed to install the thing. The only problem is that whenever I try to boot to FreeBSD the computer justs beeps at me. The thing is, I have two equally sized partitions on a 45 gig hard drive (~22.5 ea). The first one has Win98 on it and the second has FreeBSD. The only reason I used this set up is because I have some stuff on the Windows partition that I don't want to get rid of so I used FIPS to separate the partition. So, my boot prompt looks like this: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD Default: F1 and, as I said, when I push F2 the computer just beeps. Any suggestions? Dave PS I searched the mail archive and I found this same problem but the response pointed to a faq question that doesn't seem to exist anymore. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message