From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 16:21:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C2D1065676 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 16:21:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 581FC8FC0A for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 16:21:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=milibyte.co.uk) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1K0fRT-0002WI-Bl for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 17:20:59 +0100 Received: by milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K0fRS-0000e3-GX for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 17:20:58 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:20:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <483AB939.7040607@magichamster.com> In-Reply-To: <483AB939.7040607@magichamster.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805261720.58431.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: 62393f3bb54a241fd7702c60dc32d13c Subject: Re: Question about installing boot manager in sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:21:01 -0000 On Monday 26 May 2008, Mark Ovens wrote: > I've got two SCSI drives, da0 and da1. FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE is > installed on da0 and da1 currently has Mandriva Linux on it. The boot > manager being used is Grub. > > I now want to replace Linux with FreeBSD 7 but I'm expecting that I > may end up with an unbootable system because da0 (6.3) will still > have Grub but da1 (7) will have the FreeBSD boot manager. Since Grub > uses files in /boot on the Linux partition it won't work as these > will have been wiped out. [snip] > So, what's the best (i.e. safest) way to proceed? > > Oh, and before anyone says, yes, I *have* backed up all my data ;-) Well if you're already familiar and happy with grub installed on your linux system why not install grub from ports and continue to use it. Install it into 6.3 before you replace linux with 7.0 and add extra commands to menu.lst ready to boot 7.0 from da1. Then when you install 7.0 just tell sysinstall not to install a boot manager. -- Mike Clarke