From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 10:54:55 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 DA24B16A4CE for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBE843D2D for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:54:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.196.44]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004022018545401600ndgtke>; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:54:54 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 4B4A5F; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:54:54 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <20040220185454.4B4A5F@be-well.no-ip.com> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:54:54 -0500 (EST) From: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org (Lowell Gilbert) cc: Joel Gudknecht cc: 'freebsd-questions' Subject: 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, 20 Feb 2004 18:54:56 -0000 Reply-To 'freebsd-questions' Subject: Re: 4.9-RELEASE + XP Pro problem References: <200402201831.i1KIVao11103@clunix.cl.msu.edu> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 20 Feb 2004 13:54:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200402201831.i1KIVao11103@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: <44ptc9wphd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jerry McAllister writes: > You want to choose the first one to install the FreeBSD Boot Manager > The standard boot record will only boot FreeBSD and nothing else. > > The terminology is a little confusing here, but you want the FreeBSD > boot _manager_ not just the standard boot _record_ - two different > sector positions on the disk. The boot _manager_ choosed which > boot _record_ to start booting with. To reduce the confusion: the standard boot record will boot whatever is marked as the "active" slice, not just FreeBSD. If you have a tool that can change the active slice, you don't technically need to change the Master Boot Record ("MBR") to boot something different. This is rarely useful, although occasionally someone will want to set up the disk so that it always boots one particular slice if booting from the hard disk, and boot from a floppy to boot other slices. Also, the boot manager gets installed to the MBR; you can't have it installed at the same time as the standard boot record. This is why the boot manager is so minimally featured; it fits completely into the MBR, and so has to stay within 512 bytes.