From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 22:41:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.tx.home.com (ha1.rdc2.tx.home.com [24.14.77.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949E137B491 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:41:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.179.82.202]) by mail.rdc2.tx.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010201064110.BULY26394.mail.rdc2.tx.home.com@home.com> for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:41:10 -0800 Message-ID: <3A79049F.B617549D@home.com> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:39:27 -0600 From: sound byte X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: is there something wrong with my keyboard? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 on a new eMachines computer I bought. I am trying to have it co-exist with WindowsME. Everything goes fine, i get the partitioning done correctly, I get freebsd to install a boot manager etc. Then I reboot and get to the screen where i have to choose as follows: F1 Dos F2 Freebsd Default F1 I press F2 and nothing happens; I press enter and windows loads up; i press F1 and wondows loads up!!! should i install some other boot manger? or is there something i'm doing wrong? Thanks! Imran Ismail MS Operations Research Graduate Research Assistant School of Engineering Southern Methodist University PO Box 750122 Dallas, TX 75275-0122 Ph: 214-768-1404 http://www.seas.smu.edu/~imran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message