From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 5 00:38:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA00997 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00992 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id KAA04262; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:38:34 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma004259; Thu Jun 5 10:38:25 1997 Message-ID: <33966CA3.7AB1@barcode.co.il> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 10:37:07 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Ricketts CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting trouble References: <3.0.1.32.19970605142951.007d3210@sia.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ben Ricketts wrote: > > I am having trouble getting freebsd to boot. I have it installed on my > second drive which contains a primary DOS, EXTENDED and a FREEBSD > partition. I have selected to load the boot manager when I install, and set > the BOOTABLE flag in the partition editor. after the instalation finishes > and I reboot the machine it just boots back to windoze. > > I am sure there are programs about which will fix thi but I could not find > any of the ones mentioned in the message archives... > > all help much appreciated :) > > Ben Your boot manager got installed on the second disk. Boot DOS and use the bootinst.exe utility in the tools directory on the CD (or the ftp sites) to install the boot manager where it belongs. Nadav