From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 16:11:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07848 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07684 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:11:13 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA07523; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:11:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Mahesh (cont-AMKHARE) Bhaskarpandit" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about BSD installation In-Reply-To: <199804162150.OAA13948@mailsun3> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Mahesh (cont-AMKHARE) Bhaskarpandit wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 on my PC, in one of the partitions on a new > disk. The details of the disks are: > > Disk Number Drive Size OS > ----------- ----- ----- --- > > 1 C: 1.2 GB Windows 95 > > 2 D: 500 MB DOS > 2575 MB Free BSD OKay, good. > The second disk is divided into two partitions and in the second > partition, FreeBSD in installed. Using the disk partition editor, > I have made both the partitions in the second disk active (by > pressing 's'). I have chosen to install the Boot manager provided > as part of the software. But when I boot the machine, I don't get > any choice to choose between BSD and Windows 95. According to the > documentation, it is supposed to show something like: > > F1 : Windows > F2 : bsd > > The machine always goes on to boot Windows 95. How can I get to boot > into BSD? Please let me know what I need to do. You need to install booteasy to the first disk manually. Grab bootinst.exe and boot.bin from the CD or FTP site in tools/ then run bootinst from DOS. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message