From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 6 15:35:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from b.mx.crl.com (bmx.crl.com [165.113.1.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC3415D47 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anarchy@crl.com) Received: from crl.crl.com (crl.com [165.113.1.12]) by b.mx.crl.com (8.8.7/) via SMTP id PAA12914; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:35:40 -0700 (PDT) env-from (anarchy@crl.com) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 15:35:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Manes To: "Ramoncito P. Puyat" Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing freebsd with win95 In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990506231622.00a14d30@mailhost.i-next.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi everyone! > > I'm trying to install FBSD 3.1 on my system. However, my only free drive is > connected to the slave of the secondary IDE. I tried using the boot manager > but it didn't work. How do I go about it? How exactly did you use it? Does it not load, does it not point to freebsd correctly, or what? I haven't used the bootloader as much as lilo, so I'll definatly be wrong below. There the simple answers to a minor problem (hopefully that's all you have..) If the loader doesn't.. load: 1. Its set as the mbr on the 1st drive. Either it haults (fdisk /mbr) or other OSes will overwrite it. 2. put the boot loader on the boot block of the partition. That way, yuou merely make that partition active (FreeBSDs), and then it can point to win9x (and no mbr problems). Also is *perfect* when more OSes are needed. 3. Did you set the partition active? :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message