From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 6 11:58:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.cegetel.fr (mx1-out.cegetel.fr [195.115.41.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3D737B401 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 11:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.univers.cegetel.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.cegetel.fr (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13832; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:58:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by HERMES with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:58:55 +0200 Message-ID: <8D7497BD530FD2119D040000F6B656D40BCFFF5C@MINOS> From: ABDALLAH Faycal To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Cc: 'abdallah.faissal@wanadoo.fr' Subject: need help with kde and boot... Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:58:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi list, i have two problems and i need help: 1. i had installed FreeBSD on my machine (HD 40 GB) which had two OS (win98--> 24 GB and Linux Mandrake--> 7GB (with LILO as boot manager) and i then installed FreeBSD on the remainig 7 GB). when i installed FreeBSD i asked it during the sysinstall to install the FreeBSD boot manager and after rebooting the linux partition can no longer be loaded even though i can see its partition with the partition magic in windows...i tried to mount the slice doing :" mount_ext2fs /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/linux" but the system won't let me do so... how can i triple boot my system 2. i installed also the KDE environment during installation and every thing worked well until i have recompiled the kernel for the sound support but till then each time i start the Xwindow using "startx" (as root), i receive a bunch of Xwindow errors such as "kwrited crashed" etc... i included a file script for the output error when trying to start the KDE... this problem appeared in two machines when i recompiled the kernel to support the sound... how would i reinstall kde if needed (i installed it during freebsd installation) i really appreciate your help Sincerely Faissal N.B: please reply also to abdallah.faissal@wanadoo.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message