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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:48:03 +1100
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>, Victoria Steblina <v-steblina@adfa.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't boot into FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <00030920501400.00387@freebsd.freebsd.org>
References:  <200003080230.SAA36980@cytosine.dhs.org>

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Sadly, I do have a duel partition with Win95 because a majority of people are
Win95/98 users and I need to use it for support and testing purposes. But I
haven't touched it in 3 months. 

In regards to your question

 Not you
don't hit the 3 key but like f3 or f1.

On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote:
> 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
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> > School of Mathematics & Statistics
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