From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 16:31:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 619A137B491 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 16:31:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 99633 invoked by uid 100); 5 Feb 2001 00:31:14 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14973.62546.106486.973060@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:31:14 -0600 (CST) To: Uri.Shenderovich@ecitele.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD with other OSes In-Reply-To: <128089222@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Uri.Shenderovich@ecitele.com types: > Hi, > I was trying to install FreeBSD-4.1 with Windows98,Linux and Solaris-7. > The installation itself finished without a hitch , but after reboot > it turns out that FreeBSD wiped out the System Commander from the MBR , > eventhough I choose the option not to install FreeBSD boot manager. Did you happen to choose the option to install the standard MBR? > I have a single IDE HD (IBM 30 Gb) and FreeBSD was installed > within 1024 cylinders boundary at primary partition . > The primary partition was created by Partition Magic. > The first primary partition was occupied by Win98, > at the 3d primary partion resided Linux and 4th one was supposed to be > occupied by Solaris. > As I said previously FreeBSD completely destroyed the MBR and more than > this, > now it's even not possible to boot FreeBSD. Well, what happens when you try and boot the systems? BTW, Solaris 8 takes two partitions, not one. It wouldn't surprise me of Solaris 7 did the same. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message