From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 06:02:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73EAE16A4BF for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 06:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arrow.velocet.net (ptr.akibako.net [216.138.223.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A0443F3F for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 06:02:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willyyam@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org) Received: from sillyrabbi.dyndns.org (H241.C230.tor.velocet.net [216.138.230.241]) by arrow.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D404D98B for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:02:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from willyyam by sillyrabbi.dyndns.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19x4bq-0000AE-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:02:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:02:10 -0400 From: William O'Higgins To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030910130210.GA456@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: William O'Higgins Subject: laptop booting issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:02:10 -0000 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. -- yours, William O'Higgins william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca