From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 6:30:18 2002 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 7BA4537B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:30:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD92C43E6E for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:30:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id C5FAF4FC8B; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:29:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD594A0E for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:29:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:29:47 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setting a drive bootable Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello All After installing and configureing FreeBSD 4.6, I installed RedHat. The install went fine, and I kept the BSD bootloader. Now, everytime I go into sysinstall/fdisk and set the root partition for linux to be bootable, write it to the mbr, then write the bootloader, it doesn't stick, meaning that when I reboot, F2 (Linux) just beeps when I press it, and when I boot into F1 (FreeBSD) and run fdisk again, the bootable flag on the Linux partition is missing. It doesn't seem to 'stick' when I make it bootable. Any idea what's going on here? I could install LILO or grub and get around this but I'd rather use the FreeBSD bootloader. Thanks - JB /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message