Q&A
This section is intended to answer some of the most common questions regarding FreeBSD installation.
| Q1: | I put the FreeBSD CD in my CD-ROM drive, but my system booted straight into Windows. What can I do? |
| A1: | You need to select your CD-ROM drive as the first boot device in your system's CMOS setup utility. Restart your system and look for a message on how to get into the utility (the DELETE key is a common way). Press the key as soon as the system is starting up, and then look for an option to change the boot device order in the program that comes up. |
| Q2: | After I restarted my system, it seems to hang and not load anything. What's wrong? |
| A2: | Some systems will hang for a very long time if the CMOS is set to boot from the CD-ROM drive first, and ... |
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