From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 5:22:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573F037B405 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 05:22:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id OAA22778; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:30:19 +0200 Message-ID: <3B77C6E9.2020902@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:24:09 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: NS Kandah Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preparing to install References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG NS Kandah wrote: >I am dying to put FreeBSD on my primary home machine. It currently has two >IDE drives, both on the primary IDE controller, a master and a slave. The >slave currently has Redhat Linux 7.1 on it. I want to put FreeBSD on the >slave, and I tried it before, but after the installation was completed, >successfully I presume, I was not presented with a boot manager so I can >fire up my FreeBSD install. > >I need to install the boot manager in the MBR of the primary master drive, >correct? Do I also need to install it in the MBR of the primary slave? I >never understood my mistake the last time I attempted a dual boot Win98 / >FreeBSD machine. Any insights would be most appreciated. > The default boot manager (BootEasy) needs to be installed on the master drive to locate Linux and the second disk. If there is only FreeBSD on the second drive, a standard boot block is enough. Alternatively, install OS-BS from the tools directory off any FreeBSD CD-ROM or mirror. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message