From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 24 12:35:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from westhost43.westhost.net (westhost43.westhost.net [216.71.84.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFDC737B400 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:35:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dsl092-099-212.nyc2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.99.212]) by westhost43.westhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1OKdk024297 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:39:46 -0600 Received: from chexmix by localhost with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16f5NT-00033i-00 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:36:11 -0500 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:36:11 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: mbr and dual boot with linux Message-ID: <20020224203611.GA11746@burningclown.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i From: Glenn Becker Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, My latest anguished wrestling with the dual-boot issue occurred yesterday, when adding FreeBSD to a laptop that had a happy Slackware installation on it produced a machine that would only boot to the message "missing operating system." I have since reinstalled Slack, and have LILO installed via that process. In order to =leave that the hell alone= so that I can edit LILO and add FreeBSD to the LILO menu, I want to choose "Leave MBR untouched" in the FreeBSD install, correct? Because I could swear I -did- that, and yet ... wound up with unreachable OSs. Sorry if this is in the F'inManual ... it's not been a good weekend and I'm frustrated. :) Didn't think I'd have to install both of these yet again. Thanks, Glenn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message