Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:07:55 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Horror story Message-ID: <19990317110755.2791.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990314113000.008f95e0@mail.bfm.org> of Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:30:00 CST References: <3.0.6.32.19990313090839.008ded20@mail.bfm.org> <36E9D60C.F26F86EE@uswest.net> <3.0.6.32.19990313090839.008ded20@mail.bfm.org> <3.0.6.32.19990314113000.008f95e0@mail.bfm.org>
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> >There's an important lesson here, for anybody installing or > >upgrading any operating system. > > > >[Details snipped.] > > Thank you, Greg. Yes, the Disk Manager overwrote my MBR without warning. > Luckily, I had nothing on my old FreeBSD slice that I could not restore > (i.e. I had copies of everything but the system elsewhere). > > As for my other problem, ie. not being able to boot 3.1-R after installing > it, I was able to solve it with some hand-holding by Robert Nordier. > > I am now a very happy man! :-) That's excellent news. I guess that you'll be continuing with FreeBSD then. I hope your future experiences are rewarding. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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