Date: 25 Mar 2002 10:32:37 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: n3481@wi.rr.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bootloader Mess-up Message-ID: <j44rj4qz0a.rj4@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <3C9ED0A4.B1D137FD@wi.rr.com> References: <3C9ED0A4.B1D137FD@wi.rr.com>
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Nick Lozinsky <nl3481@wi.rr.com> writes: > I've installed FreeBSD over my current Win2K installation on the same > hard drive, > and I installed the Standard MBR in the setup, but this doesn't show my > Win2K os. > What can I do about this? And, if so, can I install the BSD Boodloader > after the > system installation? It's not clear why you'd expect the Standard MBR to "show my Win2K os" for two reasons: 1) You say you installed FreeBSD over it, which means to me that Win2K is gone. 2) The Standard MBR doesn't show OSes; it just tries to boot the primary partition that is marked "active" in the MBR's partition table. I'm gussing that if you had the FreeBSD installer install a standard MBR, it also marked the FreeBSD primary partition (AKA slice) as the active one. If you, in fact, have two OSes on separate primary partitions, then you should be able to mark the partition which you want to boot using "fdisk" from a M$DOS system boot floppy or maybe from FreeBSD's "fixit" floppy after booting through the other two FreeBSD floppies, "kern.flp" and "mfsroot.flp". You can also boot up your FreeBSD OS via these floppies, but I'll refer you to the FreeBSD Handbook for that. Once you get FreeBSD running, you can run "boot0cfg" to install the FreeBSD bootloader if you want; it DOES give a list partitions/OSes to try to boot. Actually, you can probably install the bootloader from the installer program by booting up the two install floppies like you're doing and install, and then using the "custom" menu option, but I've never tried it, so... Good luck. P.S. Your mail software seems to be wrapping your lines at something like column 73, so your mail would be easier to read if you'd not write lines a few characters longer than that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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