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Date:      Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:36:57 -0500
From:      Adriel Cardenas G <freebsdmx@yahoo.com>
To:        NS Kandah <nkandah@nc.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: preparing to install
Message-ID:  <3B79EE59.588F650E@yahoo.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108130719090.12743-100000@telefunken.kandah.home> <3B77C6E9.2020902@i-clue.de> <3B79B1FB.9C6C05EC@yahoo.com>

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Adriel Cardenas G wrote:
> 
> 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.

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