From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 23 7:33:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75CCA37B403 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA25934; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:33:42 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <00d901c15bcf$dd3ffa40$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: , Cc: References: <3.0.5.32.20011023080024.00f12f38@mail.sage-american.com> Subject: Re: booteasy: how to boot into windows safe mode? Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:34:46 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Amit, > I have a question about booteasy that I hope somebody can answer. I >use the default boot manager that comes with freebsd (4.2) to dual >boot windows 98 and freebsd. I recently added hardware that is causing >windows to not boot completely. How can I boot into windows safe mode? >since the normal windows option of pressing F4 before windows loads is >not available anymore.... Jack's answer definitely works, but on fast computers the period to hit the key is very short. If you don't mind using a different boot manager, xosl (www.xosl.org) allows for every boot config to send keys along with the selection. Very nice to solve your problem. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message