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Date:      Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:15:25 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        mariano Blanding Guzman <mbland@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I have problems with FreeBSD 2.2.8
Message-ID:  <19990131111524.L8473@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990131000328.25881.qmail@hotmail.com>; from mariano Blanding Guzman on Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 04:03:27PM -0800
References:  <19990131000328.25881.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Saturday, 30 January 1999 at 16:03:27 -0800, mariano Blanding Guzman wrote:
> I have a Dell Dimension XPS R400 with a 12.9 GB hard disk drive with
> WINDOWS 98 (I know It sucks, but thats the way life goes on), and I
> install FreeBSD 2.2.8 (We are using a 11GB partition for Windows and a
> 1GB partition for FreeBSD). The instalation process was pretty good but
> when I try to boot with FreeBSD by pressing F2, the boot manager keeps
> printing the following message:  `F?' prompt.

This is probably a BIOS problem: it can't find your partition because
it's not in the first x MB on the disk (x= .5, 1, 2, 4 or 8).

If you really want to keep Microsoft, you should put the FreeBSD
partition first and  Microsoft afterwards.

Greg
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