From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 7 22:08:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA01820 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 22:08:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01811 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 22:08:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA07946; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 16:43:25 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512081643.QAA07946@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: doc fodder? To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 16:43:25 +0000 () Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199512080256.SAA26717@violet.berkeley.edu> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 7, 95 06:56:31 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > So, I repartitioned again to give FreeBSD a primary partition, using > fdisk for linux, and added that to os/2's boot manager menu. Then I > installed, after partitioning the scsi drive for /usr and swap. This all > worked fine except for the boot block install program writeing boot > blocks both to the root of my main ide drive as well as the root of the > partition I put FreeBSD on. This meant another boot from the os/2 disks > to reinstall the os/2 boiot manager boot block. The OS/2 bootmanage doesn't use a custom bootblock. Fdisk would is all that is required to reset the default partition to the OS/2 bootmanager. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[