Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:26:11 -0500 From: pete collins <pcollins@ocsny.com> To: George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov> Cc: mruhl@cisco.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: master boot record Message-ID: <36A4F873.F3968A24@ocsny.com> References: <199901192115.QAA28005@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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yea i agree i got out of my jam with the good old fdisk /mbr to reset the master boot record later pete George Uhl wrote: > 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> > > X-Accept-Language: en > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > To: George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov> > > CC: mruhl@cisco.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: master boot record > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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