Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:24:09 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de> To: NS Kandah <nkandah@nc.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preparing to install Message-ID: <3B77C6E9.2020902@i-clue.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108130719090.12743-100000@telefunken.kandah.home>
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NS Kandah wrote: >I am dying to put FreeBSD on my primary home machine. It currently has two >IDE drives, both on the primary IDE controller, a master and a slave. The >slave currently has Redhat Linux 7.1 on it. I want to put FreeBSD on the >slave, and I tried it before, but after the installation was completed, >successfully I presume, I was not presented with a boot manager so I can >fire up my FreeBSD install. > >I need to install the boot manager in the MBR of the primary master drive, >correct? Do I also need to install it in the MBR of the primary slave? I >never understood my mistake the last time I attempted a dual boot Win98 / >FreeBSD machine. Any insights would be most appreciated. > The default boot manager (BootEasy) needs to be installed on the master drive to locate Linux and the second disk. If there is only FreeBSD on the second drive, a standard boot block is enough. Alternatively, install OS-BS from the tools directory off any FreeBSD CD-ROM or mirror. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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