Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:39:00 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Stuart Krivis <stuart@apk.net>, rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.2.7 install overwrites bootsect Message-ID: <19980903083900.A18254@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9809022318380.19686-100000@junior.apk.net>; from Stuart Krivis on Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 11:20:49PM -0400 References: <yzs7lzpbaz5.fsf@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9809022318380.19686-100000@junior.apk.net>
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On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 11:20:49PM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote: > On 31 Aug 1998 rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu wrote: > > > Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> 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. I tend to install FreeBSD into the NT bootloader these days. It is some kind of defensive measure against all kinds of woes that can be caused by installing Win95,NT etc. later. [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation, Version 4.0" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation, Version 4.0 [ VGA-Modus]" /basevideo /sos C:\="MS-DOS" c:\tools\bat\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" With bootsect.bsd being /usr/mdec/boot1 > > > > -- > > Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com > > > Fourth law of programming: > Anything that can go wrong wi > sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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