From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 4 13:22:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F6437B669 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.90.23]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000704202223.KMDC290.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 21:22:23 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA12568; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 21:22:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 21:22:09 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: The BSD boot loader Message-ID: <20000704212209.B11100@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from gene_dinkey@hp.com on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:15:23PM -0600 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:15:23PM -0600, DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote: > I was wondering if the BSD boot loader will have any problems being > installed to the boot sector of a BSD partition instead of being installed > to the MBR. My system currently is running Windows 98 and NT and I have > always used System Commander as my boot loader. > > I would like to install FreeBSD on this system (it has some stuff that my > other BSD boxes don't) but I have never done multi boot with BSD. > > If you choose to install a standard MBR will it put that on the same disk > that BSD is installed to (or give you a choice) or does it default to 0,0,1 > on the active disk? I couldn't find anything in the man pages or in the > handbook that could help me so any sugestions would be welcome. (also if > there is documentation I missed please let me know so I can review it) > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multi-os/index.html and http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN2068 should answer your questions. HTH > Thank You > > Gene Dinkey > 970.278.8732 > Hewlett Packard Customer Care Center > Technical Computing Division > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message