Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 23:20:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Krivis <stuart@apk.net> To: rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.2.7 install overwrites bootsect Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9809022318380.19686-100000@junior.apk.net> In-Reply-To: <yzs7lzpbaz5.fsf@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
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On 31 Aug 1998 rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu wrote: > Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> writes: > > > I gave a 2.2.7 dist kit to a (sceptic?) colleague. I was hoping > > him coming back as a missionaire. Grrm, he told me, FreeBSD install > > had overwritten his bootsector (NT) although he explicitly clicked > > the option that was promising to leave the bootsector intact. > > I tend to make this mistake too. You move to the line to say leave > the bootsectors alone. But you must then type space to move the I still have a FreeBSD Booteasy boot sector on my NT disk. It just boots NT these days since I installed a new disk for FreeBSD. I have no problems with NT not booting; it doesn't even know booteasy is there. -- Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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