From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 11 2:44:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE8014C1F for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 02:44:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=mistress.oldserver.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11Pjk4-000JgT-00; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 09:46:44 +0000 From: Marc Schneiders Reply-To: marc@oldserver.demon.nl Organization: The Lazy SunWorshipper Inc To: "Kristof Peeters" , Subject: Re: Can't install kernel... Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:37:12 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <006501befc34$52d45a60$39f74bc1@mp-piii450-dvd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99091111445500.06618@mistress.oldserver.demon.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Kristof Peeters wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I recently bought the FreeBSD 3.2 distribution... complete with book and all > 4 CD-roms from Walnut Creek. > About the last 7 hours I tried to install this excellent operating system. I > previously installed a 3.0 distribution on an different computer and now I > had to start all over... > > The computer is a Pentium 133 with 16 Mb - 2 Hard Disks (1.2 Gb and 850 Mb) > No problem at all, i guess. > So I tried to dual boot it, together with Windows 98. Since it was > preinstalled, I kept Windows 98 on my C-drive and wanted to install FreeBSD > on the D-drive. [cut out some 20 lines] > So, then the installation stopped and I had to reboot... > Surprisingly, I've selected to install the bootmanager that was on the disk. > Windows 98 started to boot... I didn't even had a chance to select any OS. > > What went wrong, and what can I do about it? Most PC's boot the first hard disk :-) So you will have to put the FBSD boot manager on the first drive. There is a utility for this in the tools directory on your CD, in directory tools: bootinst.exe. Run it from DOS. You will then probably see when you reboot: F1 DOS F5 Drive 1 Hit F5 and you get the boot manager on the second drive, which should have the FreeBSD entry. Succes! -- Marc Schneiders marc@oldserver.demon.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message