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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!usc!news.cerf.net!newsserver.sdsc.edu!newshub.csu.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!Nuxi.com!not-for-mail From: obrien@Nuxi.com (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: System Commander "No bootable partition" Date: 26 Feb 1996 10:20:31 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4gs1hf$dcq@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <epwb5l5fg.fsf@steffi.mnsinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu Robert Nicholson (robert@steffi.mnsinc.com) wrote: : Has anybody else figured out how to get System Commander to boot : FreeBSD? Yes, but the version I use is over a year old. : I elected to select "Leave the MBR alone" (choice 3) when doing the : installation : : All that happens is that I get "No bootable partition" when I select : it from SC at boot time. I had SC installed and working for MS-DOS. Then I installed FBSD and installed a standard boot sector/block. (You installed nothing to get it booted.) Then I reinstalled SC (like the manual says), and it found the new operating system (FreeBSD), and all was good. -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)