From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 20:54:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82EAE16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:54:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from umbra.fatbird.net (c-24-127-87-162.we.client2.attbi.com [24.127.87.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F00343D31 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:54:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from froggymike@fatbird.net) Received: from [192.168.0.20] ([192.168.0.20]) by umbra.fatbird.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3N3YKfd003931 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:34:20 -0700 From: MIchael Alexander To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1082692454.3412.41.camel@ardneh.fatbird.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:54:14 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: Booting Q. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:54:15 -0000 Vijay wrote : Which OS did you install first? Fedora/FreeBSD ? I've FreeBSD first and then RH9. The Grub Seems to load the FBSD without any problem. Fedora was first. I didn't install a boot loader at that time because I was having problems with my MBR on previous installs of Mandrake 10 and Suse 8.0. By the time I was done poking around trying to fix things I ended up crashing the whole bloody thing. So I started from scratch. My mate really liked Fedora, but I installed it to boot only from floppy. Later I read that the boot manager on FreeBSD was fool-proof. So here I am, the fool that is going to test that statement. Installing FreeBSD fixed my MNR and boots fine from my HD, but Fed is not recognized as a bootable partition with Boot Magic (I didn't install it as it wouldn't have fixed my problem). BTW I have really learned a lot from this list in the short time I have been here, thank you all. And I decided to put my music files on a separate partition that will be used as a secondary back-up (see file sharing across desktops).