From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 16: 8:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.umr.edu (mrelay1.cc.umr.edu [131.151.1.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30A237B417 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:08:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ultra25.cs.umr.edu (daemon@ultra25.cs.umr.edu [131.151.89.9]) via ESMTP by mrelay1.cc.umr.edu (8.12.1/) id fAU08gNm019365; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:08:42 -0600 Received: (from thill@localhost) by ultra25.cs.umr.edu (8.12.1/8.12.0.Beta7) id fAU08f5L016617; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:08:41 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:08:41 -0600 From: Daniel Thill To: Jim Gansle Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting a boot manager up Message-ID: <20011129180841.B16422@umr.edu> References: <001601c17932$243a22c0$4ba4b1d8@gvtc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <001601c17932$243a22c0$4ba4b1d8@gvtc>; from jgansle@gvtc.com on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:01:09PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When I reboot, I just get a normal Windows reboot. Using other > choices in the partitioning section, I've gotten into a situation > where there is a bootup message to the effect that it can't find > HDD, or something like that. Had to reset BIOS and then reload > Windows to be able to use the computer. This is more of a workaround, but you might try and see if your motherboard supports booting off of the other hardrive. My Asus mobo has an undocumented feature so that I can hit ESC right after the POST screen, and it will bring up a small menu of boot devices. Then I just select the second hard drive (which is a slave to my windows hard drive). It saves me the headache of using a boot manager. Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message