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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Difficulties - Part 2.2
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 9:22:11 MST
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> > explicitly.  When I did a Write MBR on the 2nd disk and not the 1st, the
> > machine boot did not see the FreeBSD boot manager - it went into the OS/2
> > boot manager.
> 
> It makes no sense to install a boot manager on the second disk.  PCs only
> boot off the first disk.

How about installing one as a container for the partition table on that
drive?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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