From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 01:34:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21286 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21277 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA24659; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:34:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Isaac Baca cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootloader In-Reply-To: <358C39C6.75F730C4@email.mot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Isaac Baca wrote: > I recently tried to install freebsd on a third partition on my pc. > The first partition contains MS-DOS 6.2. The second partition is Windows > 95. I installed freebsd on the third partition but could no longer boot > to windows or dos. I got to a screen that said "boot:" but did not > know what to type to boot to each OS. I ended up reinstalling dos and > windows after an FDISK because i needed to use my PC. What do you think > I might have done wrong? Maybe my installation? The Boot: prompt comes from the FreeBSD slice. It sounds like y ou need to install BootEasy. Instructions for that are in the FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message