From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 11:59: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4529D37B6C2 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:58:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16854 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Feb 2001 19:56:00 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:56:00 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman To: Nigel Soon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot easy not working Message-ID: <20010208135600.A12768@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nigels@advanis.ca on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:58:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have just installed 4.2 Release on my HD that also has a windows > partition on it. > > The windows slice was created first then freebsd. I installed the > freebsd boot easy manager during the install process and everything > ran smoothly. When I rebooted though where it would usually get to > Boot0 ie the menu selection for dos or freebsd it just gives me a > blank screen with the cursor in the top left hand corner. It does > not accept any keyboard input and I end up just having to reset the > machine. Don't sweat it; I've had stuff like this happen before, and reinstalling booteasy has always fixed it. To reinstall it, you can use a tutorial I wrote some time ago; it's still in the -questions archive: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1185480+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-questions/20001008.freebsd-questions Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message