From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 01:54:19 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA20022 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 01:54:19 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA19596 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 01:52:21 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA01472; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:51:12 +0800 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:51:11 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Yves Lepage cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager problem In-Reply-To: <199506121953.PAA20224@maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Jun 1995, Yves Lepage wrote: > > I am a sun-managers subscribers, someone tell me if summarizing > is not required/unwlecomed here. It is quite welcome here, thank you. > I booted DOS, did an "fdisk/mbr" to remove the boot code > that was on the disk. [...] > Rebooted the machine and t works fine since then. No more fuss about > BIOS and controller matching etc... This may come in handy in the next few days as I have a request to install FreeBSD on a machine that has two IDE drives, with the first dedicated to DOS and the second split between DOS and FreeBSD. The OS/2 boot manager is already installed and the user would like to continue using it. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org