From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 10:00:02 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 94CFD16A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arrow.velocet.net (ptr.akibako.net [216.138.223.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D14243F93 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:00:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willyyam@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org) Received: from sillyrabbi.dyndns.org (H241.C230.tor.velocet.net [216.138.230.241]) by arrow.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE1099B; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:00:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from willyyam by sillyrabbi.dyndns.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19xUna-00007v-00; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:00:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:00:02 -0400 From: William O'Higgins To: lists Message-ID: <20030911170002.GA446@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> References: <20030910130210.GA456@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <3F5FE40E.1020301@dlfws.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F5FE40E.1020301@dlfws.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: William O'Higgins cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop booting issue - RESOLVED X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:00:02 -0000 On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:55:10PM -0700, lists wrote: >William O'Higgins wrote: > >>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. >Hi William, > >You should install Win98 first, FreeBSD second. Win98 will overwrite the >boot manager installed by BSD and you'll have to reinstall ( provided >that you're using the boot manager. ). I have setup a bunch of dual boot >systems ( various win versions & FreeBSD ) and never ran into the >problem you are having. Did you do a custom install or the default one? I fixed the issue by installing Windows (XP this time) first, then FreeBSD, and I can now boot to either one from the boot menu. Thanks to everyone. -- yours, William nerd.cx