From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 12:10:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01604 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pita.cisco.com (pita.cisco.com [171.71.68.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01595 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mruhl@cisco.com) Received: from cisco.com (corrupt.cisco.com [171.71.66.10]) by pita.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.2-SunOS.5.5.1.sun4/8.6.5) with ESMTP id MAA24483; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36A4E505.488C0142@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:03:17 -0800 From: "Michael J. Ruhl" Organization: Cisco Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Pete Collins Subject: Re: master boot record References: <199901191931.OAA25081@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------5375D3697822AB08ACB5B494" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------5375D3697822AB08ACB5B494 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > You might be installing on a non-booting disk. You might be installing > over a old FreeBSD version and do not want to change the boot info. > > And the best reason: > > Without option 3, FreeBSD would be like M$ Windows (which when it is > installed over-writes the boot record without even asking) in that it > forces you to change it. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com Pete Collins wrote: > so when you are running multiple os's on your machine you don't > interfere with the old boot record > > or you may have another os loader that you like and don't want to mess > with > > i personally boot my freebsd from floppy as not to interfere with the nt > os loader it doesn't like being messed with > > later > > pete Ahh, that is what I suspected, and that could explain why my active partition gets stomped on when ever I boot FreeBSD. I will reinstall and use that option. :) Thanks! mike --------------5375D3697822AB08ACB5B494 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mruhl.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Michael J. Ruhl Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mruhl.vcf" begin:vcard n:Ruhl;Michael J. tel;fax:(831) 457-5208 tel;work:(831) 457-5423 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.employees.org/~mruhl org:Cisco Systems;Cisco by the Sea adr:;;101 Cooper St.;Santa Cruz;California;95060;U.S.A. version:2.1 email;internet:mruhl@cisco.com title:Tall Blonde Guy x-mozilla-cpt:;-21152 fn:Michael J. Ruhl end:vcard --------------5375D3697822AB08ACB5B494-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message