Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:42:37 -0500 From: Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> To: "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! Message-ID: <441F21CD.1020906@zebra.net> In-Reply-To: <5ceb5d550603201327y52c4ee93o6f38fb38db098556@mail.gmail.com> References: <441F1CB1.3000807@zebra.net> <5ceb5d550603201327y52c4ee93o6f38fb38db098556@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear Daniel: I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years old. It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard disks. The only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's why I need the boot manager solution. Thank you. Daniel A. wrote: > On 3/20/06, Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> wrote: > >> Dear friends: >> >> I decided to go out and buy the latest issue of Linux Format with the >> FreeBSD 6 CD. I am very glad I did. FreeBSD is tough to install, but >> after spending several hours I finally succeeded in doing a perfect >> installation. ONE BIG PROBLEM: When I removed the CD and rebooted, I got >> into my Windows XP (I have two separate disks, one for Windows, one of >> FreeBSD). There was no way to get into FreeBSD. Naturally, I went into >> my BIOS and changed the boot sequence from CD to Hard Drive. That only >> caused my system to boot into Windows XP. >> >> I read the instructions about the FreeBSD Boot Manager. It said clearly >> that it should allow switching from one OS to another. But I did not see >> any configuration for that. How, may I ask, do I do this while >> installing FreeBSD? How do I change this configuration to guarantee that >> all my work won't go down the toilet and that when I reboot, I will see >> Lilo or whatever as a boot manager that will allow me to select either >> FreeBSD or Windows? >> >> I am looking forward to solving this and then to actually seeing FreeBSD >> for the first time. >> >> Thank you so much in advance. >> >> Benjamin >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> >> > In your BIOS, make changes so that the system boots from HDD1 instead of HDD0 > > >
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