From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 15:34:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe60.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.30.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38BC37B69F for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:34:21 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [63.52.246.102] From: "JSMolinaro" To: "FreeBSD" Subject: BOOT Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:24:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jan 2001 23:34:21.0627 (UTC) FILETIME=[DBCE28B0:01C07B5D] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was hoping someone could help me. I have a patitioned disc, with a dual boot, running Windows 2000 professional on C: and Windows ME on D: Whenever I start-up my system with the boot-up floppy disk or try to install form CDROM, b/c my system BIOS supports it I get this on my screen......... Searching for boot record form Floppy..ok /boot.config: -P keyboard: no BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 / The slash is at the bottom of the screen and it just sits there blinking I let it sit for about 40 minutes with nothing else happening. Now what makes this situation strange to me is that if I hit any key on the keyboard duning this start-up process I get this then... Searching for boot record from Floppy..ok /boot.config: -P keyboard: no >> FreeBSD/I386 BOOT Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader boot: I can type anything I want after boot: on the bottom line, but I don't understand why I get these two different messages and I have not figured out what to do yet. I'm sorry this is long but I've been having a bit of trouble geting this started so far. Thankyou for everyting. J.S.M. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message