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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:43:02 -0400
To: Dan Ellard <ellard@eecs.harvard.edu>,
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Subject: Re: installing boot manager
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At 09:28 PM 7/17/2001 -0400, Dan Ellard wrote:

>I just installed FreeBSD 4.3 on one of the disks on my PC.  The PC has
>several SCSI disks:  BSD/OS 4.1 is installed on disk 0 and FreeBSD 4.3
>on disk 1.
>
>The install seemed to go OK, but although I indicated that I wanted to
>install the FreeBSD boot manager, it never asked me to configure it,
>and it didn't seem to get installed.  This leaves me baffled because
>now I don't know how to boot into FreeBSD!
>
>When I reboot or reset the machine it goes straight to sd0 and boots
>BSD/OS, same as before.  I need to have a choice for booting either
>OS.  Any ideas?  (Do you know if there is a BSD/OS boot manager of
>some kind?)
>
>Thanks,
>         -Dan
>
>
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Boot into the FreeBSD installer, (either via floppy, or via CD-Rom as you 
would have previously), go to Configure, then to 'fdisk', highlight the 
partition(s) you want to be made active (bootable), and the press the 'w' 
key. Pressing w will write the information to the mbr. You can then exit 
the installer and reboot. You should not have to do anything to configure 
the bootmgr, just install it.

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