From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 27 04:54:00 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 6540E106564A for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aiza21@comclark.com) Received: from avmxsmtp5.comclark.com (avmxsmtp5.comclark.com [202.69.191.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A26448FC0A for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19463 invoked by uid 89); 27 Feb 2010 04:53:58 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 19458, pid: 19459, t: 0.0488s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.93.3/m: Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.10.3?) (202.69.174.43) by avmxsmtp5.comclark.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2010 04:53:57 -0000 Message-ID: <4B88A564.1020504@comclark.com> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:53:56 +0800 From: Aiza User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david wilson References: <59387.775.qm@web58405.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <59387.775.qm@web58405.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 04:54:00 -0000 david wilson wrote: > 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? > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Your post is very short on details. But reading between the lines. I think what you are saying is XP is installed in slice 1 of the hard drive and you installed Freebsd into slice 2 on the same hard drive. Now when you boot you default into xp and Freebsd is no where to be seen. You want option to select xp or Freebsd during boot process. This being the case your error was while installing Freebsd you did not select the option to install the boot manager. Reboot from the disc1 install cd. Do the install again but this time during the fdisk/bsdlabel process select option to write boot manager to the MBR.