Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:03:57 -0700 From: "Balaji, Pavan" <pavan.balaji@intel.com> To: "'Rap Sucks'" <zergling363@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: bootloader Message-ID: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18703BC5B82@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com>
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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22905.53713AA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" The bootloader is always installed on the primary harddisk! Infact the primary partition of FreeBSD also is installed on the primary harddisk. This is my guess, maybe I'm wrong -- Run cfdisk on linux as root -- you might find some FreeBSD partition. Delete it! (or convert to linux native). Pavan Balaji, CIS Graduate Student, Ohio State University "Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect... It just means that you have decided to see beyond the imperfections" -- Rash -----Original Message----- From: Rap Sucks [mailto:zergling363@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:39 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bootloader I recently took FreeBSD off my system (350 PII, 2 HDs, bsd on partition of second disk) but the bsd bootloader still shows up on boot and doesnt let Grub (or lilo) show up (from Linux that I installed over the partition) how do i get rid of the bootloader? _____ Do You Yahoo!? New! SBC Yahoo! Dial <http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://rd.yahoo.com/sbcyahoo/consumer/evt=640/*http:// sbc.yahoo.com> - 1st Month Free & unlimited access ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22905.53713AA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3504.2500" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=472420118-11072002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=472420118-11072002>The bootloader is always installed on the primary harddisk! Infact the primary partition of FreeBSD also is installed on the primary harddisk. This is my guess, maybe I'm wrong -- Run cfdisk on linux as root -- you might find some FreeBSD partition. Delete it! (or convert to linux native).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pavan Balaji,</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>CIS Graduate Student,</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ohio State University</FONT> </P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect... It just means that you have decided to see beyond the imperfections" -- Rash<B></B></FONT></P> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Rap Sucks [mailto:zergling363@yahoo.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:39 PM<BR><B>To:</B> questions@FreeBSD.ORG<BR><B>Subject:</B> bootloader<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>I recently took FreeBSD off my system (350 PII, 2 HDs, bsd on partition of second disk) but the bsd bootloader still shows up on boot and doesnt let Grub (or lilo) show up (from Linux that I installed over the partition) how do i get rid of the bootloader? <P><BR> <HR SIZE=1> <B>Do You Yahoo!?</B><BR>New! <A href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://rd.yahoo.com/sbcyahoo/consumer/evt=640/*http://sbc.yahoo.com" target=_blank>SBC Yahoo! Dial</A> - 1st Month Free & unlimited access</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22905.53713AA0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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