From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 6:12: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c528925-a.plano1.tx.home.com (c528925-a.plano1.tx.home.com [24.21.161.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759DA37B424 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 06:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kreska.org (c528925-a.plano1.tx.home.com [24.21.161.123]) by c528925-a.plano1.tx.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA26008; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:11:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jeff@kreska.org) Message-ID: <39AD07E5.2B72CAFB@kreska.org> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:11:01 -0500 From: Jeff X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager on a Laptop, win98 boots, fbsd won't References: <000801c0123b$7c219540$03180a0a@sthngtn1.ct.home.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------111BFFED406FB40D945297B0" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------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 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

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