From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 15:12:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF7A15004 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 15:12:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA33196; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:15:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199911062315.SAA33196@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: problem with dual boot In-Reply-To: from Rob Hunter at "Nov 6, 1999 10:25:21 pm" To: robh@uunet.co.za (Rob Hunter) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:15:55 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rob Hunter wrote, > Hi > > I have a machine running Win98. I've got a 20 gig ide drive in it. I'm > having difficulties getting FreeBSD booted after installing (3.3-RELEASE). > > I'm installing from cdrom. This is what my partitions look like: > > part 1: fat32 (win98 installed - 4 gig) > part 2: non-dos (3.5gig) this is where I'm installing FreeBSD > part 3: fat32 (12 gig) > > I manage to finish the installation, and then ask it to install FreeBSD's > default boot manager. IIRC, the choice of boot manager is wa-ay at the begining of the install process when you are doing the disk slicing and partitioning. > After this, I get my 2 options when booting, and am > told to press F3 to boot FreeBSD. OK, you say that FreeBSD is slice 2 of 3. But you get two choices at boot time, and the choices are 'F1' and 'F3'? > I hear an audible beep when pressing > this, and the only key that does anything is F1 (Win98). > > I've tried installing os-bs and end up with the same. ^^^^^ Huh? Not sure what that is. > I've tried changing > active id tag's too. The boot manager just uses those for the 'Default:' on the menu. > I've also tried letting it modify the start id > automatically upon booting. > > No matter what, I can't get it to boot my bsd partition :( > > Any suggestions? Please reply to me personally as I'm not on > freebsd-questions. Could you show us the fdisk output? Are any of the slices "extended partitions?" -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message