From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 22:22:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3DC416A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:22:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4CE043F75 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:22:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([4.46.22.189]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031103062241.IZFC1420.out003.verizon.net@duron.pcmedx.com> for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 00:22:41 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C6FAECF for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:22:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcmedx.com (mike-bsd.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.249]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC241AE17 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:22:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3FA5F42F.4090009@pcmedx.com> Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 22:22:39 -0800 From: Mike Maltese User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030908 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd (http://www.amavis.org) and f-prot (http://www.f-prot.com) at pcmedx.com X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [4.46.22.189] at Mon, 3 Nov 2003 00:22:41 -0600 Subject: Dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD - odd problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 06:22:43 -0000 I've installed FreeBSD on a friend's box with a pre-existing Windows XP installation. This isn't the first time I've done this, my personal desktop machine is dual boot Win2K/FreeBSD, and there are no problems. On to the problem...the machine starts up normally and the FreeBSD boot manager presents my boot options (F1 - ??, F2 - FreeBSD). When I press F2 to select FreeBSD, the machine just beeps at me. Pressing F1 boots XP with no problems. The only thing that I can think of is that the boot sector of the FreeBSD slice isn't where it's supposed to be, but beyond that I'm stumped. Anyone have a suggestion as to what may be causing this and how I might remedy it? TIA, Mike