From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 1: 6:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ixion.honeywell.com (ixion.honeywell.com [129.30.4.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA6F14C28 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 01:06:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sleas@ixion.honeywell.com) Received: by ixion.honeywell.com (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA088914784; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 03:06:25 -0600 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 03:06:24 -0600 From: Shawn Leas To: Nathan Ahlstrom Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loadlin style bootloader? Message-Id: <19990305030624.A8238@ixion.honeywell.com> References: <19990304191652.A20126@ixion.honeywell.com> <19990304210530.C22633@winternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990304210530.C22633@winternet.com>; from Nathan Ahlstrom on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:05:30PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:05:30PM -0600, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote: > Shawn Leas wrote: > > I guess only one thing's stopping me. I need to be able to > > leave my MBR untouched. (Work PC) > > > > Is there any way to do that? > > I believe that leaving the MBR untouched is an option presented by > sysinstall. Only problem is booting at all, then. Any bootmgr screen will confuse the yokals enough that they'll wipe all my hard work off the hd. This is why loadlin is so nice. -- Shawn <=========== America Held Hostage ===========> Day 2235 for the poor and the middle class. Day 2254 for the rich and the dead. 687 days remaining in the Raw Deal. <============================================> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message