Hi,
I have an asus n50v that I am planing on installing FreeBSD on. The laptop has two power buttons', one to boot the operating system and the other to boot into expressgate. I have had a look at the disk and expressgate is not installed on the HD, I'm pretty sure it's on a rom on the motherboard, but I could be wrong..
As usual the laptop came with windows installed by default. I went ahead and installed FreeBSD and installed the boot manager to the mbr. This hosed the windows boot manager and after I had done the install I was no longer able to boot into expressgate using the second power button, which leaves me to believe that the mbr installed by the manufacturer has the information to boot expressgate. I know this because the HD failed while it was under warranty and sent back to the manufacturer, it came back with windows installed with the windows boot manager on the mbr... plus expressgate worked again.
Does anyone here have an asus laptop with expressgate that has got it working with freebsd? Is there a way for me to get the contents' of the windows boot manager so that I can keep expressgate working when I have installed freebsd?
hope this message is not too convoluted,
thanks,
Brett.
I have an asus n50v that I am planing on installing FreeBSD on. The laptop has two power buttons', one to boot the operating system and the other to boot into expressgate. I have had a look at the disk and expressgate is not installed on the HD, I'm pretty sure it's on a rom on the motherboard, but I could be wrong..
As usual the laptop came with windows installed by default. I went ahead and installed FreeBSD and installed the boot manager to the mbr. This hosed the windows boot manager and after I had done the install I was no longer able to boot into expressgate using the second power button, which leaves me to believe that the mbr installed by the manufacturer has the information to boot expressgate. I know this because the HD failed while it was under warranty and sent back to the manufacturer, it came back with windows installed with the windows boot manager on the mbr... plus expressgate worked again.
Does anyone here have an asus laptop with expressgate that has got it working with freebsd? Is there a way for me to get the contents' of the windows boot manager so that I can keep expressgate working when I have installed freebsd?
hope this message is not too convoluted,
thanks,
Brett.