Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 09:06:34 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: Phil Jourdan <philjor@quik.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install doubts Message-ID: <19990503090634.A255@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9905031004450.4517-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>; from Jonathan Chen on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM %2B1200 References: <4.1.19990502162822.009fd140@mail.quik.com> <Pine.SC5.4.10.9905031004450.4517-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
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On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 1999, Phil Jourdan wrote:
>
> > My fear is that if I install FBSD on a free partition (disk is 6.4 Gb
> > partitioned in FAT disks of 500 Mb and one NTFS of 3 Gb) the FBSD boot
> > manager will overwrite the C: (FAT) boot sector and I will have to
> > reinstall the two Windows systems. Are my fears justified?
> > Could you please clarify?
> > Thank you in advance,
>
> The installation process will prompt you whether you want to install a
> Boot-Manager. You should then choose the options that says in effect:
>
> "No. Leave it alone"
>
FWIW a couple of times when I've installed FreeBSD and chosen the
"No. Leave it alone" boot manager option FreeBSD has set it's own
slice as startable (and removed the startable flag from drive C:).
This means that when you re-boot it comes up in FreeBSD, not to
the NT boot mangler.
I'm not sure why this should happen, but it has. Anyone have any
ideas?
This could make a newbie think that his Windows system has been
overwritten. The easy solution is to simply run FDISK (DOS) and
reset drive C: to startable/active.
Phil: There is a section in the FAQ which details how to add FreeBSD
to the NT boot menu.
HTH
> Jonathan Chen
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