From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 18:44:40 2003 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 44B9937B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:44:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B360743F43 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:44:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b190.otenet.gr [212.205.244.198]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0H2iVIn020659; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:44:32 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0H2JiYK012534; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:19:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0H2Jirr012533; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:19:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:19:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Dan Aiello Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing win2k after Freebsd? Message-ID: <20030117021944.GC11624@gothmog.gr> References: <3E244093.3060706@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 2003-01-16 20:45, Dan Aiello wrote: > > > > > > Windows 2000 won't touch your boot loader, IIRC. > > > > And even if it does, you can boot of a FreeBSD install CD, got to the fdisk > > section and tell it to write changes (without changing anything) and you'll > > get the option to replace the FreeBSD boot loader. > > > > Warning on this, exactly which buttons you select determines whether or not > > the bootloader gets installed. I did it like 3 times or something before it > > worked the last time I had to, but the good news is that it never did anything > > wrong. > > For the curious, Windows 2000 _does_ overwrite the boot sector. Also, I > was unable to make FreeBSD install the boot loader. I did every possible > combination of things, and every time it _seemed_ like it was going to > install the boot loader, but it never did until I went through an install > process... :( There are 3 ways listed in the FAQ for this very problem. In the past, I have recommended a fourth way in a followup of mine in this list. Have you tried one of them. Which one? I restored the FreeBSD boot loader in the workstation of a friend, after he installed Windows 98. It was easy: - Boot from the installation CDROM - Interrupt the boot loader at the spinning character by hitting SPACE. - At the "boot: " prompt type 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader - Let FreeBSD boot as usual from the disk. - Log in as root, and type: # boot0cfg -v -B /dev/ad0 [The actual device name might be different, depending on the disks you have at your system, but you get the idea.] This seems to work nicely for me for some time now, every time I need to do the "oops, windows ate my boot menu" thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message