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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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