From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 11:58:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28948 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marlin.corp.gulf.net (root@marlin.corp.gulf.net [198.69.72.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28932 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shana@corp.gulf.net) Received: from pickerel.corp.gulf.net (pickerel.corp.gulf.net [206.105.61.173]) by marlin.corp.gulf.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA00285 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 13:57:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: by pickerel.corp.gulf.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BD7CE5.11E92910@pickerel.corp.gulf.net>; Mon, 11 May 1998 13:59:52 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD7CE5.11E92910@pickerel.corp.gulf.net> From: Shana Nielsen To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: 2.2.6 installation Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 13:59:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA28934 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've recently converted (at least partially) to FreeBSD. I'm running a pen 133 with 48 Mb of RAM, and a 2.4 G hard drive, partitioned in half. On half the partition resides NT Workstation 4.0. On the other half resides FreeBSD. NT was installed first so FreeBSD's boot manager can do its thing, and yet, it refuses to do the thingy. The boot manager comes up on start up and sees both sides correctly NT as dos and BSD as BSD...but I can only boot into the NT partition. When I created the FreeBSD slice I did set it bootable, and I've managed to get BSD to run on this machine in the past (when it was the *other* operating system that didn't want to run). The entire IDE drive is formatted fat 16. The BSD installation runs like an absolute dream, but on the restart it refuses to boot into bsd, and goes about the default path of booting into NT. Since I'm at the point of pulling my hair out, does anyone have a suggestion or where I might have gone wrong? Thanks, Shana Nielsen ~A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice, without getting nervous~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message