From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 14 9:31:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop01.globecomm.net (pop01.globecomm.net [206.253.129.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2136F151B9 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:31:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zen@buddhist.com) Received: from WhizKid (r38.bfm.org [208.18.213.134]) by pop01.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id MAA29643; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:29:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990314113000.008f95e0@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: stanislav@mail.bfm.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:30:00 -0600 To: Greg Black , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Horror story In-Reply-To: <19990314110617.11747.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> References: <3.0.6.32.19990313090839.008ded20@mail.bfm.org> <36E9D60C.F26F86EE@uswest.net> <3.0.6.32.19990313090839.008ded20@mail.bfm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 21:06 14-03-1999 +1000, you wrote: >There's an important lesson here, for anybody installing or >upgrading any operating system. > >[Details snipped.] Thank you, Greg. Yes, the Disk Manager overwrote my MBR without warning. Luckily, I had nothing on my old FreeBSD slice that I could not restore (i.e. I had copies of everything but the system elsewhere). As for my other problem, ie. not being able to boot 3.1-R after installing it, I was able to solve it with some hand-holding by Robert Nordier. I am now a very happy man! :-) Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message