From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 10:33:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from charon.khoral.com (charon.khoral.com [209.75.155.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D546F37B8AA for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:33:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@khoral.com) Received: from zen.alb.khoral.com by charon.khoral.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 13 Jul 2000 17:33:52 UT Received: (from steve@localhost) by zen.alb.khoral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA21357 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:33:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen Message-Id: <200007131733.LAA21357@zen.alb.khoral.com> Subject: Multi-boot problem.. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:33:51 -0600 (MDT) 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 I installed FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE as of July 11, on my new Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop, and I'm having trouble getting the multiboot menu working. I've tried both the standard FreeBSD boot menu and the OS-BS boot menu. OS-BS reports "missing operating system" when I try to boot it, and the FreeBSD one just beeps at me (no error message at all) My disk is sliced as follows: 11GB windows slice 17GB FreeBSD slice with following partitions - 64meg / - 512meg swap - 4 meg /usr - 4 meg /data I am able to boot by booting from my 4.0 CD, then switching the currdev to my harddisk before letting it boot the kernel. However, this is really annoying. Did I mess something up when I installed FreeBSD? Did I miss a config line in one of the conf files in /boot? Any help is appreciated. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@spukhaus.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message