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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:34:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Isaac Baca <Isaac_Baca-P1015C@email.mot.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bootloader
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623013356.15375R-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <358C39C6.75F730C4@email.mot.com>

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On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Isaac Baca wrote:

>       I recently tried to install freebsd on a third partition on my pc.
> The first partition contains MS-DOS 6.2. The second partition is Windows
> 95. I installed freebsd on the third partition but could no longer boot
> to windows or dos. I got to a screen that said    "boot:" but did not
> know what to type to boot to each OS. I ended up reinstalling dos and
> windows after an FDISK because i needed to use my PC. What do you think
> I might have done wrong? Maybe my installation?

The Boot: prompt comes from the FreeBSD slice.  It sounds like y ou need
to install BootEasy.  Instructions for that are in the FAQ at
http://www.freebsd.org.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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