From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 17 3:10:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28C1814BF2 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 03:10:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 2792 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Mar 1999 11:07:55 -0000 Message-ID: <19990317110755.2791.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:07:55 +1000 From: Greg Black To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Horror story References: <3.0.6.32.19990313090839.008ded20@mail.bfm.org> <36E9D60C.F26F86EE@uswest.net> <3.0.6.32.19990313090839.008ded20@mail.bfm.org> <3.0.6.32.19990314113000.008f95e0@mail.bfm.org> In-reply-to: <3.0.6.32.19990314113000.008f95e0@mail.bfm.org> of Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:30:00 CST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >There's an important lesson here, for anybody installing or > >upgrading any operating system. > > > >[Details snipped.] > > Thank you, Greg. Yes, the Disk Manager overwrote my MBR without warning. > Luckily, I had nothing on my old FreeBSD slice that I could not restore > (i.e. I had copies of everything but the system elsewhere). > > As for my other problem, ie. not being able to boot 3.1-R after installing > it, I was able to solve it with some hand-holding by Robert Nordier. > > I am now a very happy man! :-) That's excellent news. I guess that you'll be continuing with FreeBSD then. I hope your future experiences are rewarding. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message