From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 12 19:11:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lloydix.2y.net (wks-166-135-66.kscable.com [24.166.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFE437B405 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xidnalg (xidnalg [192.168.0.2]) by lloydix.2y.net (8.11.5/8.11.3) with SMTP id f8D2Ax853699; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:11:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glandix@lloydix.2y.net) Message-ID: <020201c13bf9$6a791460$0200a8c0@2y.net> From: "gLaNDix" To: "Russell A. Khurshudian" , References: <002a01c13bf4$92f34500$0200a8c0@networld> Subject: Re: Installation of windows over FreeBSD Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:11:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I ran the installation CD again (by booting off of it) and went into the post-configuration section... somewhere in there you choose partitions and disc labels... just go into the partition configuration, make sure the FreeBSD partition is bootable, and quit that screen like you did when you first installed FreeBSD... It should ask you if you want to install the boot manager into the MBR or boot sector or choose none at all... choose MBR on the first drive and boot sector on the FreeBSD partition... you should then get something like F1 for windows and F5 for FreeBSD (that is how my boot works). Good Luck, ------------------------- Jesse (gLaNDix) Kaufman glandix@lloydix.2y.net http://lloydix.2y.net ------------------------- <<< FreeBSD lloydix.2y.net FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #1: Tue Aug 14 02:48:31 CDT 2001 glandix@lloydix.2y.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/LLOYDIX i386 >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell A. Khurshudian" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:36 PM Subject: Installation of windows over FreeBSD > After my installation the MBR was controlled by windows. The steps suggested > by the FreeBSD FAQ list did not succeed when i tried them, does anyone have > any suggestions on how i could boot back into FreeBSD and recover the > original MBR so that i can dualboot into both systems. Thank you. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message