Dear Alex and friends: Thanks a million. And what a relief!
Benjamin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Zbyslaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 12:41 PM Subject: Re: After Install -- Where is FreeBSD? > Benjamin Sher wrote: > > >> Dear friends: > >> All that's missing now is FreeBSD. After completing my install, I > >> exited. FreeBSD exited normally, then rebooted. But no sign of > >> FreeBSD. Instead, Windows came up. I do recall choosing to have a > >> boot manager but never actually saw the screen and boot-up options. > >> So, I went back into Free BSD by switching back to the CD in my Bios, > >> but that's as far as I dare go on my own. What should I do? Am I > >> missing something? > > > I don't know why the boot manager isn't installed, but it's very easy to > install it again. Boot from the CD, select Post Installation Config, > then select the disk Label editor. Pick the first slice and make it > bootable (S) then W to write you changes and you are asked if you want > to install the boot manager. Say yes. > > Quit out and reboot, taking out the CD. While I'm getting things to > work I usually leave the floppy and CD as BIOS boot options before the > hard disk. Once I know it all works, I fix the BIOS to look for the > disk first. If you don't have a bootable CD or floppy in the drive, > then the system boots from disk. > > This is from memory, but I'm pretty sure it's correct. As long as you > do nothing other than making a slice bootable, then you should do no damage. > > --Alex > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 6/17/2005 > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
