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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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