From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 15: 6:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B577114D52 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:06:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA06237; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:06:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Parker Brown Cc: Tech Support Subject: Re: Possible Installation Bug In-Reply-To: <37668515.24FD202A@gte.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Parker Brown wrote: > Just did a full installation of 3.2, "Novice" style (all defaults), and > I distinctly told it to leave my Master Boot Record alone, as I use an > OS/2 style Boot Manager. After installation, only FreeBSD would boot - > so I had to use an emergency floppy to restore the MBR. > > Did I overlook something? FreeBSD likes to reset the active partition bit. You just had to use fdisk and make the OS/2 boot manager partition the active and it would have worked. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message