From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 1:58:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jim.saca.net (jim.saca.net [196.36.60.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2184C37B8B6; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:58:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@jim.saca.net) Received: from jim.saca.net (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jim.saca.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA09069; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:56:34 +0200 Message-ID: <38EDA2C1.F7930ECB@jim.saca.net> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 10:56:34 +0200 From: Jim Morrisby Reply-To: jim@saca.net Organization: SACA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Jim Morrisby , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD loader problems (dual/multi boot) References: <200004061741.NAA04127@server.baldwin.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > On 06-Apr-00 Jim Morrisby wrote: > > Hi there > > > > Please mail me back at: jim@saca.net as I am not currently subscribed to > > this list. > > > > I am experiencing problems with the loader in FreeBSD, it worked great until > > I installed win2k and win98 on the machine - as these > > kinda redo the MBR. I reset the BSD partition active, but when i rebooted, i > > ONLY have BSD to boot from. > > I am have to set an active partition for which ever OS i want to run, this > > is rather annoying! > > Use the boot0cfg in BSD to re-install the boot0 MBR loader, which will install > a menu when you first boot up that allows you to choose which system to boot > from. See the boot0cfg(8) man page for details. > > > I know I need to reconfigure the loader, but I have no idea where to start. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > The Linux equiv for the above is: hda1 - bsd > > hda2 - win98 > > hda3 - win2k > > > > > > Thanks > > Jim > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ You have hit the nail on the head!! Many thanks for your reply. Can I prehaps suggest this should be in a FAQ? (If it already is, I never saw it) Regards Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message