From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 23:21:06 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 821CC16A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 23:21:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48FA543F3F for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 23:21:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@dlfws.net) Received: from adsl-63-205-128-72.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO dlfws.net) (the?freak@sbcglobal.net@63.205.128.72 with plain) by smtp1.bt.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Nov 2003 07:21:04 -0000 Message-ID: <3FA601DB.6050007@dlfws.net> Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:20:59 -0800 From: lists User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20031011 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Maltese References: <3FA5F42F.4090009@pcmedx.com> In-Reply-To: <3FA5F42F.4090009@pcmedx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 07:21:06 -0000 Mike Maltese wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi Mike, Do you have WinXP and FreeBSD on the same disc or on two separate discs? Thanatos