Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:11:01 -0500 From: Jeff <jeff@kreska.org> To: Bill <glacious@totaloverdose.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager on a Laptop, win98 boots, fbsd won't Message-ID: <39AD07E5.2B72CAFB@kreska.org> References: <000801c0123b$7c219540$03180a0a@sthngtn1.ct.home.com>
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--------------111BFFED406FB40D945297B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a Inspirion 7500 with 25 gig disk and had the same problem until they removed the 1024 cyl limit in 4.1. I installed 4.1 on the last 3 gig of the 25 gig drive and everything works great. ( Accept X won't display on the LCD only an xternal monitor. I even tryed the config file on dell's website but I wasn't able to get the LCD to render the X session. ) Bill wrote: > I've been trying to install freebsd on my Dell Inspiron 7500 notebook, > and it all goes fine until I reboot to boot into the installed FreeBSD > OS. F1: WindowsF2: FreeBSD Default: F1 I press F1, I goto windows, > no problem. Press nothing, goes to default, F1, windows, no problem. > Press F2, it beeps. I've reinstalled 3 times, no luck yet. I fdisk > /mbr and reinstalled, and made the fbsd partition bootable during > install, still no luck. Any help or usefull resources would be very > much > appreciated. > -Bill glacious@totaloverdose.net --------------111BFFED406FB40D945297B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> I have a Inspirion 7500 with 25 gig disk and had the same problem until they removed the 1024 cyl limit in 4.1. <p>I installed 4.1 on the last 3 gig of the 25 gig drive and everything works great. ( Accept X won't display on the LCD only an xternal monitor. I even tryed the config file on dell's website but I wasn't able to get the LCD to render the X session. ) <p>Bill wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I've been trying to install freebsd on my Dell Inspiron 7500 notebook, and it all goes fine until I reboot to boot into the installed FreeBSD OS.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>F1: Windows</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>F2: FreeBSD</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Default: F1</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I press F1, I goto windows, no problem. Press nothing, goes to default, F1, windows, no problem. Press F2, it beeps. I've reinstalled 3 times, no luck yet. I fdisk /mbr and reinstalled, and made the fbsd partition bootable during install, still no luck. Any help or usefull resources would be very much appreciated.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1> -Bill <a href="mailto:glacious@totaloverdose.net">glacious@totaloverdose.net</a></font></font></blockquote> </body> </html> --------------111BFFED406FB40D945297B0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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