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Date:      Sun, 03 Sep 2000 20:16:04 +0200
From:      Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
To:        Joel Mc Graw <jpmcgraw@home.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Dual Boot: FreeBSD and BeOS
Message-ID:  <39B29564.2003763A@gmx.de>
References:  <39B1B2EF.74ED268E@home.com>

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Hi Joel,

> Hmmm, this is probably a dumb question.
> The Hardware: AMD K62-400, Maxtor 10G (primary master), Quantum 12G
> (secondary master).
> The Issue: I originally had the Quantum as the primary drive, and I
> installed Be on it.  Then I added the Maxtor, and installed FreeBSD
> 4.1r.  When I boot, the FBSD boot manager says:
> F1 FreeBSD
> F5 Disk2
> 
> If I select "F5", it tells me there it finds no boot record.  I'm
> probably overlooking something obvious, but I'd appreciate any
> suggestions.

I use xosl as bootmanager. In its documentation I found a hint, that the BeOs
bootmanager (started from a BeOS shell with the command "bootman") has to be
installed once. This will write then a sufficient boot record on the disk.
Afterwards you can change your boot manager to whatever you want to boot this
partition. The same is true for Linux. You will need lilo installed in some
Linux partition.
BTW, the BeOS bootmanager is the second finest piece I ever found of this kind.
Really easy to use. Guess which is my #1 :-)

Hope this aims at your problem.

Ciao
Siegbert


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