From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 21: 5:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63BDE37B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:05:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:04:02 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9U55MR78152; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:05:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:05:22 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: "Ramon G. Ricca" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Help with BootEasy... Message-ID: <20001029210522.B75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from rricca@columbus.rr.com on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 06:01:26PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 06:01:26PM -0500, Ramon G. Ricca wrote: > Hello, > > I'm relatively new to freebsd and have somehow hosed windows on my > first partition. When everything worked I got this message at startup: > > F1 Windows > F2 FreeBSD > F3 FreeBSD > > However, it was sort of annoying because the second freebsd partition is > the location of my /home directory (not bootable). OK, let's get the terminology straight. On your third slice (third MS-DOS partition), you have one or more FreeBSD partitions, including /home, but none are bootable. > So I used boot0cfg to > mask off the third slice (-m 0x3) and found that it got rid of the third > slice, except when I try to boot into windows, when I get something like > the following: > > F1 Windows > F2 FreeBSD > F3 Disk0 So after you get the first menu above, you then hit 'F1,' which is supposed to have Windows, but instead you get the second menu show here? Not good. > The computer beeps and doesn't boot the first slice, but will boot the > second (FreeBSD). Are you saying that you now hit 'F1' again, but it beeps and boots FreeBSD anyway? Did everything work before you did the boot0cfg? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message