Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:12:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Philip J. Welbourn" <phil@furthur.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901251706170.19224-100000@furthur.com> In-Reply-To: <36ACC4EA.A4E7D078@confusion.net>
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I'm still a newbie on FreeBSD :) When I told some of my Unix friends I wanted to put FreeBSD and Win98 on my new box. They said you must put BSD in the first partition (F1), then insall Win98 on the second. BSD appearently needs to be on cylinder 1. Been running fine. -Phil On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Laurence Berland wrote: > I installed FBSD, sort of. I posted this before, now I'm getting > desperate for help. If anyone knows what to do please help!!!! > > we've installed freebsd. We rebooted the system and the boot manager > appeared, prompting us to > F1 for ??? (which turned out is what it meant as win98) > F2 for FreeBSD > > We hit f2, and the manager just repeats its window. It does this > always, and as of yet we've not been able to get to a BSD prompt at all, > > or to get it to even begin booting fbsd. We've tried using the > installation software to rewrite the boot manager, but it doesn't change > > anything. I'm completely stumped. Do we need to reinstall FreeBSD? > Could it be that the error was because we made a second dos partition > with the boot manager also? We deleted the second dos partition to try > and fix the problem, but nothing changes. What do I do now? > > -- > Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > I wish I knew, I wish I knew > what makes me, me, and what makes you, you. > It's just another point of view, ooo. > A state of mind I'm going through, yes. > So what I see is never true, ahhh. > -"I wish" Cat Stevens (Yusef Islam) > http://stuy.debate.net http://evilfred.home.ml.org yes they're different > > icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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