From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 2:26:20 2002 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 35B6937B43E for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wskatinka.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org (CPE-144-137-233-135.wa.bigpond.net.au [144.137.233.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E735E43E42 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from katinka@magestower.com) Received: from wskatinka.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org (localhost.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by wskatinka.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6V9UDmG005627 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:30:18 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from katinka@magestower.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Katinka Mills To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: Dual-booting win98 and FreeBSD problem Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:30:13 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <200207310845.g6V8j4g9029407@guevara.di.uoa.gr> In-Reply-To: <200207310845.g6V8j4g9029407@guevara.di.uoa.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207311730.13093.katinka@magestower.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:45, system@pathfinder.gr wrote: > People, > > I have installed FreeBSD 4.4 and Win98SE each on its own disk. > (FreeBSD on /dev/ad0s1a and Win98SE on /dev/ad1s1 ). > > I have also installed the FreeBSD boot manager on ad0. > > (ad0 is the primary master and ad1 is the primary slave) > > When the computer boots, I get this prompt: > > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 1 > > When I press F1, FreeBSD boots nice and well. > > But, when I press F5, then instead of win98, FreeBSD boots again (nice > and well). > > Any help? > > > P.S. : ad1 is bootable (FAT32). IIRC Micro$oft OS's need to be booted from the first drive, but *nix is happy to be booted off any drive. Solution, reinstall with Boot Manager on First drive and win 98, then FreeBSD on second drive :o) Others may have a solution. Regards, Kat. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K.A.Q. Electronics Software and Electronic Engineering Perth, Western Australia Phone +61 (0) 419 923 731 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message