Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:43:02 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: Dan Ellard <ellard@eecs.harvard.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot manager Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010723083926.025cef10@mail.wmptl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10107172123550.380-100000@hamster.eecs.harv ard.edu>
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At 09:28 PM 7/17/2001 -0400, Dan Ellard wrote: >I just installed FreeBSD 4.3 on one of the disks on my PC. The PC has >several SCSI disks: BSD/OS 4.1 is installed on disk 0 and FreeBSD 4.3 >on disk 1. > >The install seemed to go OK, but although I indicated that I wanted to >install the FreeBSD boot manager, it never asked me to configure it, >and it didn't seem to get installed. This leaves me baffled because >now I don't know how to boot into FreeBSD! > >When I reboot or reset the machine it goes straight to sd0 and boots >BSD/OS, same as before. I need to have a choice for booting either >OS. Any ideas? (Do you know if there is a BSD/OS boot manager of >some kind?) > >Thanks, > -Dan > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Boot into the FreeBSD installer, (either via floppy, or via CD-Rom as you would have previously), go to Configure, then to 'fdisk', highlight the partition(s) you want to be made active (bootable), and the press the 'w' key. Pressing w will write the information to the mbr. You can then exit the installer and reboot. You should not have to do anything to configure the bootmgr, just install it. Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://home.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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