From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 18:30:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cytosine.dhs.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC59C37B5D6 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:30:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by cytosine.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA36980; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhishan) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200003080230.SAA36980@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: Can't boot into FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200003080150.LAA01251@groucho.ma.adfa.edu.au> from Victoria Steblina at "Mar 8, 2000 11:50:54 am" To: Victoria Steblina Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:30:07 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I used to have a dual boot a long time ago, so forgive me if I'm wrong.... But, don't you just have to hit the number 3, not the F key? --bhishan > > Dear everyone, > > I did a multiple OS installation of FreeBSD on a free partition > that was left from Windows 98. I have a large disk where the 1st > partition is FAT (C:\, bootable), then extended (logical drives > D,E,F) and then the freebsd partition. I asked for the boot manager, > and I can see the F1 -DOS and F3 -freebsd dual boot prompt on the > screen, but only F1 key is active and boots into Windows 98. > The F3 key isn't active - beeps and does nothing. > > I didn't have any error messages during the installation. > Can anyone help me fix that somehow? > > Thanks heaps for any suggestions, > Victoria > -- > > Dr. Victoria Steblina > Programmer/Research Associate > School of Mathematics & Statistics > Australian Defence Force Academy > TEL: +61 2 6268 8464 > FAX: +61 2 6268 8886 > > > > > 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