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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How 2 install BootManager?
Date: 30 May 1997 08:40:39 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <338e3b0c.449642@news.visi.com>,
learned@iname.com (Ed Learned) writes:
> 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?
'fdisk /mbr' under dos.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !