Dear friends: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4. I have two primary HD: the first disk holds WinXP, the second disk now has FreeBSD. Well, the good news is that my first install of FreeBSD went perfectly. I selected ALL for installation of ports and packages so it took a good hour to install everything from my two CD's. And some of the packages encountered an error and could not be installed (they told me to look in the debugger for details). Windows XP came through completely unscathed and in perfect working order on my first primary HD. 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? Thank you all so much. Benjamin
Dear Alex and friends: Thanks a million. And what a relief! Benjamin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Zbyslaw" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: "Benjamin Sher" <delphi123@zebra.net> 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 nodamage.> > --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 > >
Am Montag, 20. Juni 2005 19:36 schrieb Benjamin Sher:> Dear friends: > > I just installed FreeBSD 5.4. I have two primary HD: the first disk > holds WinXP, the second disk now has FreeBSD. > > Well, the good news is that my first install of FreeBSD went perfectly. > I selected ALL for installation of ports and packages so it took a good > hour to install everything from my two CD's. And some of the packages > encountered an error and could not be installed (they told me to look in > the debugger for details). > > Windows XP came through completely unscathed and in perfect working > order on my first primary HD. > > 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?You can define the first boot disk in your BIOS (usually) but that's not convenient. You need a bootmanager. WinXP has one, you can dump the loader from the BSD slice and copy it into a location where the XP loader can read it. Or you can use the FreeBSD BootEays manager, see boot0cfg. I recommend using GAG (http://gag.sourceforge.net/) but grub and similar should also work. -Harry P.S.: There's freebsd-questions@ for that kind of questions ;)> > Thank you all so much. > > Benjamin > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050620/043529f6/attachment.bin