From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 21:19:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27337 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 21:19:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27315 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 21:19:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA08206; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:12:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199807020412.AAA08206@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: Windows Interferance In-Reply-To: <359AEE46.E610485B@mcompu.com> from Andrew DeFever at "Jul 1, 98 09:19:50 pm" To: sales@mcompu.com Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:12:03 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew DeFever wrote: > Hello I am a 14 year old male. I have just installed FreeBSD 2.2.6 on my > system. I have 2 hard drives not 2 partition 2 hard drives. One has > windows the other has FreeBSD and i am trying to get FreeBSD to boot up > and am having trouble is there a different way to boot it besides > getting a boot manager. We need more information. What exactly is the problem? Any error messages on the screen? Are they IDE drives? Are they SCSI drives? What kind of controllers? It may be possible to select the boot drive in the system BIOS setup. Usually, though, people use a boot manager. Usually the one that comes with FreeBSD is adequate for the situation you describe. Dave -- http://www.microsoft.com/security: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message