laptop booting issue

Nathan Kinkade nkinkade at fastmail.fm
Thu Sep 11 07:25:42 PDT 2003


On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:55:10PM -0700, lists wrote:
> William O'Higgins wrote:
> 
> >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.
> > 
> >
> Hi William,
> 
> You should install Win98 first, FreeBSD second. Win98 will overwrite the 
> boot manager installed by BSD and you'll have to reinstall ( provided 
> that you're using the boot manager. ). I have setup a bunch of dual boot 
> systems ( various win versions & FreeBSD ) and never ran into the 
> problem you are having. Did you do a custom install or the default one? 
> Can you give any further details of what you did during the install?
> 
> Thanatos ( lists at dlfws.net )

If the only problem is with the MBR then it certainly shouldn't be
necessary to do a full re-install.  You could try to re-run sysinstall
by booting from the install floppies and then select Configure->Fdisk
and then press 'q' to skip the actual partitioning.  You will then be
prompted for the type of boot record you want to install.  I suppose you
would select the Boot Manager.  Based on what you said earlier, though,
it sounded like you installed FreeBSD second anyway, so things should
have worked the first time?

Nathan
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