From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 21: 1: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7F837B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:01:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nyc.rr.com (66-108-172-188.nyc.rr.com [66.108.172.188]) by nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with SMTP id g5S3xxs3026102; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 23:59:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 00:09:34 -0400 From: Scott Robbins To: Rick Commo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-booting and GRUB Message-ID: <20020628000934.A195@scott2.homeunix.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Rick.Commo@verizon.net on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:45:01PM -0700 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 On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:45:01PM -0700, Rick Commo wrote: > I am interested in test driving FreeBSD. I have the CDs ready to go, but I > have a question remaining after riffling through a lot of the FAQs and the > on line FreeBSD book. > > I am currently booting to Debian/Gentoo/Mandrake using GRUB. When I install > FreeBSD will I come to a point where I can tell it not to scribble ion the > MBR of the disk, or will it just quietly install it's own boot loader? When it comes to the bootloader, you have the option to not install a bootloader--and Grub will boot it without problems. HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message