From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 11: 4: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EB937B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from petasus.ch.intel.com (petasus.ch.intel.com [143.182.124.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7809343E3B for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:04:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pavan.balaji@intel.com) Received: from fmsmsxvs043.fm.intel.com (fmsmsxvs043.fm.intel.com [132.233.42.129]) by petasus.ch.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: solo.mc,v 1.42 2002/05/23 22:21:11 root Exp $) with SMTP id g6BB6Tr23025 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:06:29 GMT Received: from fmsmsx019.fm.intel.com ([132.233.42.130]) by fmsmsxvs043.fm.intel.com (NAVGW 2.5.2.11) with SMTP id M2002071111025507622 ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:02:55 -0700 Received: by fmsmsx019.fm.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:04:00 -0700 Message-ID: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18703BC5B82@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com> From: "Balaji, Pavan" To: "'Rap Sucks'" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: bootloader Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:03:57 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C22905.53713AA0" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 - 1st Month Free & unlimited access ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22905.53713AA0 Content-Type: text/html; 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

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From: Rap Sucks [mailto:zergling363@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:39 PM
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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?

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