laptop booting issue

[William O'Higgins]

I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X.  The install seemed
to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices
- F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD.  There is nothing on the DOS partition, so I want
  to press F2.

There isn't any response however.  If I hit F1 it tries to boot the
remnants of the previous OS (Win98), but if I hit F2 I get squat.

Does this ring any bells for anyone?  Or should I just install Windoze
first (I have to dual-boot :-( ) and then try again?  Any input would be
appreciated.  Thanks.
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yours,

William O'Higgins
william.ohiggins at utoronto.ca