From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 18 7:58:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trill.hh.se (trill.hh.se [194.47.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE42015429 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:58:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from u98jobj@stud.hh.se) Received: from gs177 (klart@gs177.gsten.hh.se [194.47.16.177]) by trill.hh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA15045; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:54:50 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <001201bf31dd$cbe55100$b1102fc2@gsten.hh.se> From: "Joel Björk" To: Cc: References: <3833E53B.DF4D766E@crosswinds.net> Subject: RE: I hope nobody blows a gasket, but... Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:58:43 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There's an alternative boot manager in the tools directory called osbsbeta.exe that is really easy to set up and run, it's all done in DOS with a GUI. I hope this works for you, I was in the same position and very close to giving up on FreeBSD all together until I solved this little problem. // Joel > Well, Jay, i gave the bootinst.exe program a shot, but it didn't work. > I ran it, rebooted to the CDROM, installed FreeBSD, restarted, but it > just went straight into Win98. > > And to clarify what my problem, (sorry that i wasn't being clear enough > John), I cannot seem to get my computer to give me the option of running > Windows 98, or FreeBSD when my system boots up. In other words, i can't > get FreeBSD's boot manager to work, and now the bootinst.exe is proven > to not work. > > To be really specific with what i want to do: during the installation > of FreeBSD, i want to be able to install FreeBSD to my second hard drive > (D:) and then i want to be able to install a boot manager in the boot > sector of my first drive (C:). Reverse order would work too, and i'm > not totally sure if i'd need to install the boot manager to the boot > sectors of both hard drives, but i'd just like to be able to run FreeBSD > after i install it. > > Hopefully that was more direct! ;) > > Perhaps there's something i'm reading wrong somewhere, but this problem > is growing into something mountainous. > > Thanks for any further help that anyone could offer me, > > > will > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message