From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 07:25:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE5316A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC8543F85 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:25:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@[206.26.199.146]) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E621BD91E; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:25:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:25:40 -0400 X-Epoch: 1063290340 X-Sasl-enc: pcIdxDm86JRIdR3812T6wg Received: from [206.26.199.146] (unknown [206.26.199.146]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0111BD6D7; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:24:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nkinkade by [206.26.199.146] with local (Exim 4.12) id 19xMkX-0001J6-00; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:24:21 +0000 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:24:21 +0000 From: Nathan Kinkade To: lists Message-ID: <20030911082421.GK1559@npkfbsd> Mail-Followup-To: lists , William O'Higgins , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030910130210.GA456@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <3F5FE40E.1020301@dlfws.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="iAzLNm1y1mIRgolD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F5FE40E.1020301@dlfws.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: Nathan Kinkade cc: William O'Higgins cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop booting issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: nkinkade@fastmail.fm List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:25:42 -0000 --iAzLNm1y1mIRgolD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:55:10PM -0700, lists wrote: > William O'Higgins wrote: >=20 > >I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X. The install seemed > >to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices > >- F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD. There is nothing on the DOS partition, so I want > > to press F2. > > > >There isn't any response however. If I hit F1 it tries to boot the > >remnants of the previous OS (Win98), but if I hit F2 I get squat. > > > >Does this ring any bells for anyone? Or should I just install Windoze > >first (I have to dual-boot :-( ) and then try again? Any input would be > >appreciated. Thanks. > >=20 > > > Hi William, >=20 > You should install Win98 first, FreeBSD second. Win98 will overwrite the= =20 > boot manager installed by BSD and you'll have to reinstall ( provided=20 > that you're using the boot manager. ). I have setup a bunch of dual boot= =20 > systems ( various win versions & FreeBSD ) and never ran into the=20 > problem you are having. Did you do a custom install or the default one?= =20 > Can you give any further details of what you did during the install? >=20 > Thanatos ( lists@dlfws.net ) If the only problem is with the MBR then it certainly shouldn't be necessary to do a full re-install. You could try to re-run sysinstall by booting from the install floppies and then select Configure->Fdisk and then press 'q' to skip the actual partitioning. You will then be prompted for the type of boot record you want to install. I suppose you would select the Boot Manager. Based on what you said earlier, though, it sounded like you installed FreeBSD second anyway, so things should have worked the first time? Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --iAzLNm1y1mIRgolD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/YDE1O0ZIEthSfkkRAiG9AJ90Tm9ocDjlDKSZhBXw116/u7eK8gCgwOXg Yf7a29XrLgos0WBolzwrZjU= =mBBs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --iAzLNm1y1mIRgolD--