From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 30 16:45:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15002 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:45:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14989 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:45:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA10685; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:15:26 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id LAA57839; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:15:25 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:15:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: mariano Blanding Guzman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I have problems with FreeBSD 2.2.8 Message-ID: <19990131111524.L8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990131000328.25881.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990131000328.25881.qmail@hotmail.com>; from mariano Blanding Guzman on Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 04:03:27PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 30 January 1999 at 16:03:27 -0800, mariano Blanding Guzman wrote: > I have a Dell Dimension XPS R400 with a 12.9 GB hard disk drive with > WINDOWS 98 (I know It sucks, but thats the way life goes on), and I > install FreeBSD 2.2.8 (We are using a 11GB partition for Windows and a > 1GB partition for FreeBSD). The instalation process was pretty good but > when I try to boot with FreeBSD by pressing F2, the boot manager keeps > printing the following message: `F?' prompt. This is probably a BIOS problem: it can't find your partition because it's not in the first x MB on the disk (x= .5, 1, 2, 4 or 8). If you really want to keep Microsoft, you should put the FreeBSD partition first and Microsoft afterwards. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message