From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 20 21:51:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 79BFF16A401 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:51:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 019F343D46 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:51:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com [192.168.2.61]) by wingspan with esmtp; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:51:18 -0500 id 00056423.441F23D6.00018641 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:51:17 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Benjamin Sher Message-Id: <20060320165117.369802ce.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <441F21CD.1020906@zebra.net> References: <441F1CB1.3000807@zebra.net> <5ceb5d550603201327y52c4ee93o6f38fb38db098556@mail.gmail.com> <441F21CD.1020906@zebra.net> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:51:19 -0000 On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:42:37 -0500 Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear Daniel: > > I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years old. > It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard disks. The > only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's why I need the > boot manager solution. By default, FreeBSD will install the boot manager on the disk that you installed FreeBSD on - but your BIOS isn't trying to boot from that disk, so it doesn't help. You can go back into sysinstall and tell it to install a boot manager on the first disk. Be _very_ careful, as you'll delete Windows if you choose the wrong options. I'm sorry that I don't remember the exact sequence to accomplish this. As has been said: make good backups first! You _only_ want to install the boot manager - not change anything else. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.