From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 20:23:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5B2D37B40B for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsdmx@yahoo.com) Received: from dial-148-240-108-152.zone-3.dial.net.mx (HELO yahoo.com) (148.240.108.152) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Aug 2001 03:23:28 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B79B1FB.9C6C05EC@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:19:23 -0500 From: Adriel Cardenas G X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: ex-MX, es-ES, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: NS Kandah , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preparing to install References: <3B77C6E9.2020902@i-clue.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 You can use you lilo.conf to set up the FBSD loader, all you have to do is edit your /etc/lilo.conf, adding this lines to it: other=/dev/hdc1 table=/dev/hdc loader=/boot/chain.b label=FreeBSD this is if your FBSD partition is in the secondary ide as a master. Remember to run lilo after you edit the lilo.conf Regards NS Kandah wrote: >I am dying to put FreeBSD on my primary home machine. It currently has two >IDE drives, both on the primary IDE controller, a master and a slave. The >slave currently has Redhat Linux 7.1 on it. I want to put FreeBSD on the >slave, and I tried it before, but after the installation was completed, >successfully I presume, I was not presented with a boot manager so I can >fire up my FreeBSD install. > >I need to install the boot manager in the MBR of the primary master drive, >correct? Do I also need to install it in the MBR of the primary slave? I >never understood my mistake the last time I attempted a dual boot Win98 / >FreeBSD machine. Any insights would be most appreciated. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message