From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 3:45:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rp-plus.de (clubserv.rp-online.de [149.221.232.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB61152D2 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 03:45:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from neutron.cichlids.com (as7-017.rp-plus.de [149.221.239.17]) by mail.rp-plus.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA24102 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:45:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (root@cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA61168 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:45:51 +0100 (CET) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA15038 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:45:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from alex) From: Alexander Langer Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:45:54 +0100 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Problem Message-ID: <19991114124554.F877@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19991113210550.35720.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="orO6xySwJI16pVnm" X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991113210550.35720.qmail@hotmail.com>; from tonysux999@hotmail.com on Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 04:05:09PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --orO6xySwJI16pVnm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thus spake Tonysux =A0 (tonysux999@hotmail.com): > Ok, i installed FreeBSD today, and forgot to install the boot manager. I = figure, i can fix it by reinstalling, but i don't want reinstall because it= would take a long time again. So, how would I install the boot manager by = using a sysinstall or a fixit disk without reinstalling? My book doesn't h= elp and the two IRC EFnet channels arn't helping either.=20 Question is, what do you want? What does boot _now_? Nothing? Windows? Linux? If Nothing, take the FreeBSD Fixit floppy and set the FreeBSD-partition as active, using fdisk. (from Sysinstall) If you have Windows _and_ FreeBSD and you want to decide on bootup, what you'd like to boot, you should take a look at the OSBS Bootmanager (that you have to install from DOS:) ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.1/i386/installation/misc/osbsbet= a.exe. It is REALLY nice. Alex --=20 I doubt, therefore I might be.=20 --orO6xySwJI16pVnm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Comment: Requires PGP version 2.6 or later. iQEVAwUBOC6g8bRIIUSeqRcRAQEg/ggAlU9MbK9FCkrtUqTYel/j63NIurUuDub1 2lwtr/mlRp0ZZ9687fsHGF/HuuBo+qH5+WU92sgah0lXFkJ3bb0Qu//cNphAUMO/ QtehUYw68d7PD90kXD0RVWN9WAqIFQj4smoIJT/pglMfW38h9SglH9rj+Sag4utT TON56laj2YYI2O99CKtNDNuu3F4y3CHcwY65j0PLVEIc66wcdDvg+y2qwH9R2eFz 0VEDXWmz+7oY5exgtm0JUpCjXXv6kFMbTE7Z+9nbNfWoHEKyUNsJ00l3qkxNClWV VOlmJgdqeasK/j4xkE4LLhe8VLbh5RlNkrTiSkyvDCDtVYd625WsMQ== =Zo6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --orO6xySwJI16pVnm-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message