Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:32:05 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-boot Message-ID: <44hb3588my.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110181751570.78096@oceanpt.safeport.com> (doug@safeport.com's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:03:29 -0400 (EDT)") References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110181751570.78096@oceanpt.safeport.com>
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doug@safeport.com writes: > I have a system with two physical disks with a version of FreeBSD > installed on each disk. With various 7.x systems I had: > > F1 disk1 on slices ads5x > F5 disk2 on slices ads6x > > I installed 8.2 on disk2, incorrectly saying leave the mbr alone. So > when I boot from the second disk I get > > F6 PXE > Boot: F1 > > I can then hit F1 or wait and all goes okay. I tried using sysinstall > to rewrite the FBSD boot manager but that not effect any change. Must > I rewrite the mbr on disk 1 also? That's what I would expect to have to do...
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