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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: "Bill Lyles" <jffusion@adelphia.net>,
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Subject: Re: Boot Manager
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:54:22 -0500
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Simplest is to just start a Windows install.

Of course you can't run FreeBSD after you do this unless you *then* turn 
around and use BootMagic or some other multiple boot manager, so the better 
thing is to install BootMagic to start with.

But FreeBSD's boot manager doesn't usually cause such trouble--in fact, 
that's the nice thing about it--the last partition booted is automatically 
made active, which is almost always what you want.  You can use boot0cfg -s 
to change that behavior, though, if you want.


On Wednesday 02 January 2002 01:19 pm, Bill Lyles wrote:
> I just installed FreeBSD and windows 2000
>
> I want to remove the FreeBSD boot manager and I'm not sure how to do it.
>
> It's giving me alot of problems, none of my partitions will stay active and
> I have to keep going in with fdisk to make a partition active everytime I
> reboot
>
> Thanks

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