Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:38:33 +0530 From: Vijay <vijay@ehostpros.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Booting Q. Message-ID: <1082693313.57922.13.camel@neo.vijaykiran.com> In-Reply-To: <1082692454.3412.41.camel@ardneh.fatbird.net> References: <1082692454.3412.41.camel@ardneh.fatbird.net>
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On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 09:24, MIchael Alexander wrote: > Vijay wrote : Which OS did you install first? Fedora/FreeBSD ? > I've FreeBSD first and then RH9. The Grub Seems to load the FBSD without > any problem. > > > Fedora was first. I didn't install a boot loader at that time because I > was having problems with my MBR on previous installs of Mandrake 10 and > Suse 8.0. By the time I was done poking around trying to fix things I > ended up crashing the whole bloody thing. So I started from scratch. My > mate really liked Fedora, but I installed it to boot only from floppy. > Later I read that the boot manager on FreeBSD was fool-proof. So here I > am, the fool that is going to test that statement. Installing FreeBSD > fixed my MNR and boots fine from my HD, but Fed is not recognized as a > bootable partition with Boot Magic (I didn't install it as it wouldn't > have fixed my problem). > Try booting into Fedora and set the Linux Partition to be acrive using fdisk command. Make sure the FreeBSD partition is set to be inactive. > BTW I have really learned a lot from this list in the short time I have > been here, thank you all. And I decided to put my music files on a > separate partition that will be used as a secondary back-up (see file > sharing across desktops). > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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