From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 13:29:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phnxpop4.phnx.uswest.net (phnxpop4.phnx.uswest.net [206.80.192.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6EF137B503 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 15831 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2000 20:29:06 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-questions@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 15653 invoked by uid 0); 12 Oct 2000 20:29:03 -0000 Received: from phnx-6400-gw2poolg114.phnx.uswest.net (HELO system) (63.226.50.114) by phnxpop4.phnx.uswest.net with SMTP; 12 Oct 2000 20:29:03 -0000 Message-ID: <0cc001c0348a$ad0326d0$0200000a@system> From: "Kerry Davis" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:26:17 -0700 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 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Before or after installing BSD? Unless the BSD install screws with the boot sector for some reason, other than installing its own Boot Manager, I don't see why it would matter. And if I don't tell it to install the Boot Manager, how can I dual boot to either OS? And if it does install the Boot Manager, and the Boot Manager doesn't work - which seems to be the case, one way or another - then how would replacing the MBR with the DOS version be an improvement? I'd end up only being able to boot DOS on that system. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Hamell To: Kerry Davis Cc: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, October 12, 2000 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place > >> Can someone explain to me why the FreeBSD 4.1 install doesn't work properly >> if I already have a DOS partition in place? > > I just did the same thing last night to test. You have to do the >good ol' fdisk /mbr from a DOS boot disk. > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message