From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 13:34: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D6B37B503 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D8D3C328E; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:57:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0BC328D; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:57:38 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:57:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Kerry Davis Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place In-Reply-To: <0cc001c0348a$ad0326d0$0200000a@system> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Some how, don't know how, but FreeBSD didn't quite install the MBR right. fdisk /mbr, then reinstalled Boot manager... works fine now... Rick Rick's FreeBSD Help Site! http://www.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Kerry Davis wrote: > Before or after installing BSD? > > Unless the BSD install screws with the boot sector for some reason, other > than installing its own Boot Manager, I don't see why it would matter. And > if I don't tell it to install the Boot Manager, how can I dual boot to > either OS? And if it does install the Boot Manager, and the Boot Manager > doesn't work - which seems to be the case, one way or another - then how > would replacing the MBR with the DOS version be an improvement? I'd end up > only being able to boot DOS on that system. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Hamell > To: Kerry Davis > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, October 12, 2000 10:10 AM > Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place > > > > > >> Can someone explain to me why the FreeBSD 4.1 install doesn't work > properly > >> if I already have a DOS partition in place? > > > > I just did the same thing last night to test. You have to do the > >good ol' fdisk /mbr from a DOS boot disk. > > > > Rick > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message