From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 2 20:34:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04881 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:34:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04876 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@junior.apk.net) Received: from smok.apk.net (root@mail.apk.net [207.54.158.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA27152 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from junior.apk.net (stuart@junior.apk.net [207.54.158.20]) by smok.apk.net (8.9.1/8.9.1/ts-apk-rel.980722) with ESMTP id XAA16129; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 23:20:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by junior.apk.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA20072; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 23:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 23:20:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Krivis To: rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.2.7 install overwrites bootsect In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31 Aug 1998 rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu wrote: > Christoph Kukulies writes: > > > I gave a 2.2.7 dist kit to a (sceptic?) colleague. I was hoping > > him coming back as a missionaire. Grrm, he told me, FreeBSD install > > had overwritten his bootsector (NT) although he explicitly clicked > > the option that was promising to leave the bootsector intact. > > I tend to make this mistake too. You move to the line to say leave > the bootsectors alone. But you must then type space to move the I still have a FreeBSD Booteasy boot sector on my NT disk. It just boots NT these days since I installed a new disk for FreeBSD. I have no problems with NT not booting; it doesn't even know booteasy is there. -- Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message