From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 13:51: 2 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 850B837B503 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 85118 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2000 20:50:58 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-questions@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 85057 invoked by uid 0); 12 Oct 2000 20:50:57 -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 20:50:57 -0000 Message-ID: <0cd301c0348d$bc4cd980$0200000a@system> From: "Kerry Davis" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:48:11 -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 how do I reinstall ONLY the Boot Manager? without going through the whole install thing again? -----Original Message----- From: Rick Hamell To: Kerry Davis Cc: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place > > Some how, don't know how, but FreeBSD didn't quite install the MBR >right. fdisk /mbr, then reinstalled Boot manager... works fine now... > > > Rick > > >Rick's FreeBSD Help Site! http://www.1nova.com/freebsd >Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware >***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org > >On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Kerry Davis wrote: > >> 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