From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 17:29:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 A22E716A41F; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:29:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC0743D49; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:29:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5KHTqAd068473; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:29:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <42B6FD0D.9070001@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:29:49 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050603 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Sher References: <000801c575bb$bcb3a0b0$6401a8c0@dell1> In-Reply-To: <000801c575bb$bcb3a0b0$6401a8c0@dell1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/946/Sun Jun 19 03:41:16 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: After Install -- Where is FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:29:56 -0000 Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > Well, the good news is that my first install of FreeBSD went > perfectly. I selected ALL for installation of ports and packages so > it took a good hour to install everything from my two CD's. And some > of the packages encountered an error and could not be installed (they > told me to look in the debugger for details). > > Windows XP came through completely unscathed and in perfect working > order on my first primary HD. > > All that's missing now is FreeBSD. After completing my install, I > exited. FreeBSD exited normally, then rebooted. But no sign of > FreeBSD. Instead, Windows came up. I do recall choosing to have a > boot manager but never actually saw the screen and boot-up options. > So, I went back into Free BSD by switching back to the CD in my Bios, > but that's as far as I dare go on my own. What should I do? Am I > missing something? Just letting you know that this is probably best suited to the freebsd-questions mailing list. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------