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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
> >


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