From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 27 03:17:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE38106566C for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:17:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gonadpyle@yahoo.com) Received: from web58405.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58405.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F330A8FC1C for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4085 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Feb 2010 02:50:45 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1267239045; bh=mp6BLBpt9mv28619i+NOE4rcM9L+pHu1E71mp/357+k=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=K86LS7D7JdIgi0wjRsoNL4hgkJtSMIISmIbRNXz9qTuHXjWG0ACspCKZPenV9Cez9MMu5G/jvHLjm+Kqgbj2CFK09/Dyst7LxOyD1H5n7UHBmMv7yEOpTzGmHJ7VdVUz01+Kx5PQtF9fm3SugzNyWawB0ExyfxnwrUUv/0psMYA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=5HEfbn9Q5/j2DOALr074FA8xxJWc87MV3pe991FLFqTeSxEP4qxDnnI7aQLQDKiXo/xDUlTTW/WtR4IRwinMyxmsO+w8FNB+vEmoYq2E5P1zf32izViJSRMZFTA2PLHDz03URZiesRF0aTI8p8uI3EfQdZrqg6givYTP2J6lVxM=; Message-ID: <59387.775.qm@web58405.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: YbNXCv0VM1k2VbsdXGhYfk4ClzVkNchD7aCWNauvz7IM7VePGuupSeeAyz.Nuefjptr6p7xv3uEe_dU.tEjONvO6f3QJdgPxxLbfjmKxc4TT6KXxtQFR0YfOsdLJ3tUCCfJq9JyQId6DF6Iohk54zzRSbAQmmyMJ57KWP_Xw8K.RMtZocUzGKMSAk1XGyJv2GONnSkA0XNdnGZliqm393q8USpfzmy8vVuaIzCvb1yJmTUpFw.2OVSm6ErHkUBHlqisxEz9RtHSMdNQRUM9sxOwvzEG2DThACcBNHZkb Received: from [69.171.171.135] by web58405.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:50:45 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/9.2.12 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:50:45 -0800 (PST) From: david wilson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:32:41 +0000 Subject: problem with booting and installing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:17:30 -0000 I am using win xp on a hp laptop. I want to run bsd. So i get the cd burned and then when i reboot my system. it starts up in the usual way. i have tried setting bios settings for the boot device and nothiing seems to work. any other help please?