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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!usenet From: nwolfe@vt.edu (nwolfe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: A little help with installing Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 00:44:09 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4qhpkh$a09@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: as2511-35.sl010.cns.vt.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hi! I'm attempting to install FreeBSD right now. I have two hard drives, the first is partitioned into three drives (for various Windows apps) and the 2nd hard drive is 1 primary partition for FreeBSD. The installation seems to go fine, until I try to boot, first the system would just hang after the POST test beep. After researching the net (there is a lot of good help on this group!) I figured how to correctly install the boot manager. Here is the problem : my system boots fine, and the little menu (a bit shabby on the asthetics <g>) comes up. Now I have two choices, F1 for dos, and F5 for disk2. Which ever one I choose it always boots into Windows though. I am quite stumped over this and have tried several things. I was wondering if the two hard drives both have to be set to 'master' (the 2nd drive is slaved right now). Am I one the right path, or is there something else this newbie is overlooking? System : P-133 w/ 32megs 2 1.6 WD Drives Werner CD-Rom (not installing from this, from DOS partition) 1 Floppy Matrox and Soundscape Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!