boot loader

[Gunter Wambaugh]

On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:53 AM, e-mail for freebsd wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 (from CD) onto a ThinkPad A21.  I also  
> have
> Win2Kpro on this laptop.  FreeBSD is installed at about the 7G mark  
> on the
> harddrive.
>
> I had 4.3 installed previously, and thought I would just start  
> over.  Howver,
> when the laptop boots, I get the f1 DOS f2 Freebsd prompt, but I  
> can't boot
> FreeBSD.  Win2K boots just fine.
>
> I tried a number of things:
> 1) re-installing
> 2) fixmbf (win2K utility to restore the mbr)
>
> With no success.  Any words of wisdom would be welcome.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
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I had a similar problem last week.  I had FreeBSD on the first  
partition and Gentoo on the second, and couldn't boot to Gentoo.  I  
was able to resolve my issue by doing:
$ boot0cfg -o packet ad4

Thats from memory, so viewing the boot0cfg man page would be a good  
idea.
HTH