From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 03:02:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C998316A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:02:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB70843F75 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:02:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3AA1D08E5; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:02:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:02:40 -0400 X-Epoch: 1063620160 X-Sasl-enc: 1x65CvUrpfJ/mMsabrgm1w Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.79.211.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.79.211]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263271D0905; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:02:38 -0400 (EDT) To: y.patil@attbi.com, questions@freebsd.org References: <3F64FC63.8877.59AC7C@localhost> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:02:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3F64FC63.8877.59AC7C@localhost> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3115 Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 5.1 - Boot manager doesnt install itself X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:02:42 -0000 On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:40:19 -0700, wrote: > I have two disks on my machine - the first has WinNT while the second > had linux. I used Lilo > to select which OS I wanted to boot. > > Replacing linux, I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on the second disk. In > spite of selecting > the Boot manager for installation, it still doesn't seem to install > itself. I still see the Lilo menu at > boot time. > > When selecting the boot manager option during installation, I am asked > on which disk the > operation should be performed on, and it selects ad1 (the second disk) > by default. Using ad1 > as the default suggested choice results in no boot manager prompt after > install completes. If I > select ad0 instead, I get an error message saying "only one fat allowed > as a child of whole". > > Whats the problem here? Thanks in advance > > Yatin If you want to use FreeBSD's boot loader, install it on both disks. Jud