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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:15:08 -0500 (EST)
From: George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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To: uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov, pcollins@ocsny.com
Subject: Re: master boot record
Cc: mruhl@cisco.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Ahhh, funny thing about lilo.  I have a w95/linux box
with each OS on it's own drive (w95 on c, linux on d).

Things worked fine for a while.  I powered off the PC
and left it off for a month or so.  When I powered up
the PC, I use lilo to select w95 and the c drive is no
longer recognized as a system drive and cannot be booted.
I can boot linux and mount the w95 disk as a dos drive 
from linux.

I know this is off-topic from FreeBSD, but people often
mix OS's on their platforms and might rethink using lilo
as a boot manager based on both our experiences.

George Uhl

> From pcollins@ocsny.com Tue Jan 19 16:03 EST 1999
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:06:57 +0000
> From: Pete Collins <pcollins@ocsny.com>
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> To: George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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> Subject: Re: master boot record
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> 
> actually my problem with nt happened with lilo when i installed linux on a
> partition
> 
> so i never even tried the freebsd boot manager with nt
> 
> i just prefer to use the boot loader on the floppy
> 
> later
> 
> pete
> 
> 
> George Uhl wrote:
> 
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> > Hmmm. I have a hd with 2 partitions, nt and fbsd 2.2.6.  I installed
> > nt first then installed fbsd with the boot manager.  I've never had a
> > problem booting either OS's.
> >
> > George Uhl
> 

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