Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:49:25 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> To: Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: After Install -- Where is FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20050620174925.GF61190@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <000801c575bb$bcb3a0b0$6401a8c0@dell1> References: <000801c575bb$bcb3a0b0$6401a8c0@dell1>
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--uc35eWnScqDcQrv5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Benjamin, * Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> wrote: > 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). >=20 > Windows XP came through completely unscathed and in perfect working > order on my first primary HD. >=20 > 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? We really appreciate your interest in the FreeBSD operating system. There's only one small thing I'd like to point you at and that's that <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> is supposed to be a mailing list about the development about the FreeBSD OS development tree (FreeBSd 6.0 at the moment). I guess the people at <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> could be more useful to you. I've already CC'd this message to them, so I hope that they'll mail back to you. I do have one tip for you about your problem; if you've installed FreeBSD on a machine with multiple harddisks (first disk Windows, second disk FreeBSD) and your BIOS is set up to boot from the first harddisk (HDD-0), it will just boot Windows, without even' looking at the bootloader on the second harddisk. Search for the 'Boot device priority' options in your PC BIOS Setup. Good luck! Yours sincerely, --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> --uc35eWnScqDcQrv5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCtwGlmVI4SHXwmhERAoFoAJ9951n3EOB2cjz8zvNfoEiqIo8pEACfQB7w UpdlonoTOBVUktwA2wLz7dA= =ZCsH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uc35eWnScqDcQrv5--
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