From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 4 02:15:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA28476 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 02:15:09 -0800 Received: from eel.dataplex.net (EEL.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA28466 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 02:15:04 -0800 Received: from [199.183.109.242] (cod [199.183.109.242]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA15062; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 04:14:58 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 04:15:00 -0600 To: frankd@yoda.fdt.net (Frank Seltzer) From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: your mail Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 from CD to my second hard drive (wd1) > and told the install program to install the boot manager but I don't > get a prompt when booting. How do I get the prompt to select Windows > 95 (drive 0) or FreeBSD (drive 1)? Generally, the system tries to boot from drive 0. If you want the boot manager to come up, you will have to install said manager in the boot blocks of the drive from which you are booting. There are three choices: 1) Tell the BIOS that it must use drive 1 to start the boot. 1) Physically reverse drives 0 and 1 so that FreeBSD is on drive 0. 2) Install the boot manager on the windows drive. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net