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From: learned@iname.com (Ed Learned)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How 2 install BootManager?
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 02:28:40 GMT
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On Fri, 23 May 1997 20:45:09 +0200, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de (Stefan
Eggers) wrote:

| Hi!
| 
| Today I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1.7 on a system with two harddisks.
| First one was the old harddisk with Windows 95 and the second the new
| one reserved for FreeBSD (with Linux emulation) or Linux.
| 
| From a previous attempt to install Linux the MBR contained LILO.  So far
| no problem I thought.  Installing FreeBSD should replace it by his own
| boot manager.  And after creating the slices and partitions it asked if I
| wanted to have a boot manager, put the standard MBR in this place or
| just leave it alone.
| 
| Either I made a stupid mistake (if so just tell me) or choosing the BSD
| boot manager as I did didn't install it on the first harddisk.  At least
| LILO is still there.  Is there a way to install the boot manager alone?
| Or how can I install it afterwards?
| 
| If it matters:  This was installing with the installation source on a
| dos partition as BSD didn't like the NEC CDR 272.  :-(

I have the opposite problem, I have the FreeBSD bootmgr installed in
the MBR, and I want to replace it with just the normal MBR or LILO, as
I have Red Hat inststalled instead of FreeBSD, and the FreeBSD bootmgr
wont boot Linux. Any suggestions?