From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 21:08:07 2004 Return-Path: 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 CF88916A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from svr38.ehostpros.com (svr38.ehostpros.com [66.98.148.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A674043D1F for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:08:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vijay@ehostpros.com) Received: from [202.53.76.19] (helo=[12.0.0.7]) by svr38.ehostpros.com with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1BGrz2-0000Ks-DK for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:08:13 -0700 From: Vijay To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1082692454.3412.41.camel@ardneh.fatbird.net> References: <1082692454.3412.41.camel@ardneh.fatbird.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: eHostPros.com WebHosting Message-Id: <1082693313.57922.13.camel@neo.vijaykiran.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:38:33 +0530 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr38.ehostpros.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - ehostpros.com Subject: RE: Booting Q. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 04:08:07 -0000 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" > >