From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 0:26:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516DF3D48 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 00:26:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA29553; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 00:51:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 00:51:34 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Adam Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with booting Message-ID: <20000201005134.E24609@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from mjryan@netins.net on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:39:53AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Adam [000201 00:47] wrote: > > > > Hello, I installed FreeBSD 3.4 on a 6 GB partition , the install went ok, I > installed the first boot manager, when I was prompted after reboot, F1 ?? F3 > FreeBSD, I could go into WindowsNT with F1, but when ever I tried to get > into FreeBSD it would just make a system beep. I thought maybe it was a bad > install, so I re-installed FreeBSD again. Same thing again, I did a fdisk > /mbr , lost all my WinNT files, ehhe , dang windows NT couldn`t even recover > the partitions that were on the drives, erg thats MS for yeh. > > 1. But my question is when I install again ( 6 GB partition at the end of > the drive) which boot manager should I install? > > I installed regular(first choice) boot manager last time, that one didn`t > work, just gave beeps when I tried to get into FreeBSD. > > 2. Also how would I get rid of the FreeBSD boot manager without clearing all > MBR? > > So that I can at least boot into another operating system. fdisk /mbr should be safe, but you never know with NT, sorry you got snagged by that. To fix the problem booting freebsd see: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multi-os/ good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message