From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 12:14:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29416 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:14:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29408 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:14:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11344; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:13:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from proot) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199901072013.OAA11344@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <000701be3a79$105df740$d706e718@smyth.ebci.ca> from Ryan Smyth at "Jan 7, 99 04:05:24 pm" To: rsmyth@ebci.ca Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:13:48 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Ryan Smyth said: > How can I uninstall the FreeBSD boot manager incase I wish to use another boot manager? > > I'm want to do this because I have freebsd already installed, I'm trying to install > nt after freebsd and half way through the install, nt install has to reboot, the > freebsd has trouble with this and hangs, so I'm thinking I'm going to install the > nt boot manager and try that. Microsoft OSes have to exist in the first slice (fdisk) on the disk. It can't handle things otherwise. That's what I guess your problem is. You'll need to move freebsd to the second, third or fourth slice and put NT on the first. And you don't have to worry about uninstalling it. Microsoft automatically, and without warning will delete your boot manager, when it installs one of it's OSes. Keep repeating to yourself, "Microsoft knows best." Someday, someone will believe it. -- An aad may have made this posting invalid To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message