Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 01:18:32 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: David <dvelez502@nyc.rr.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 5.0 boot manager Message-ID: <3E99FE58.3030700@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <3E97AF92.4070901@nyc.rr.com> References: <3E97AF92.4070901@nyc.rr.com>
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David wrote: > Hello > > My name is David. I'm a big freebsd fan. I've install many > freebsd from the 4.X series in the past. Anyway ,I purchase > the freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series and everything went fine > except for the boot manager. It boots up the freebsd but > not my windows 98 partion. This is the first time I am > seeing this. This never happen with the other freebsd's > I installed in the past. Hmmmm - I know of several people that have had this problem in the past but I'm afraid I don't know of a solution. When I installed 5 i ended up having to reinstall Windows as I was unable to return it to a bootable state and then re-install FreeBSD, asking it not to change the MBR. After I had done this I used a GRUB disk to boot FreeBSD and then I installed GRUB on the drive using the FreeBSD port. Hence I ended up using GRUB as my bootloader instead of FreeBSD's boot manager. I'm not sure if there is a different way to go about solving this problem, but this fixed it for me! If you need any help using GRUB then don't hesitate to drop me a line, it confused me initally :) Cheers. Andrew.
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