Date: 06 Nov 2001 12:53:09 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Keven Swingle" <swinglek@socantel.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question on FreeBSD Message-ID: <ljy9lj8vuy.9lj@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <000801c166ea$be4d4540$0200a8c0@socantel.net> References: <000801c166ea$be4d4540$0200a8c0@socantel.net>
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The FreeBSD installer, if used in the documented way, asks you whether it should install a boot manager (on the MBR). As long as you don't flub that form, it shouldn't touch your MBR (other than the partition table if you mess with primary partitions, of course). FreeBSD, like M$DOS, Linux, and most other OSes, puts a boot record at the start of its primary partition (ie, slice) which a M$DOS or FreeBSD MBR could boot to. No doubt, an NT or other commercial boot loader (MBR + other boot loader code, usually) would do the same, but I have no experience with them. In the unlikely case where they wouldn't, you could still boot to the FreeBSD partition from a FreeBSD boot floopy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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