From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 05:21:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA22466 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 05:21:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA22461 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 05:21:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA19340 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:21:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from intimidator (asm4-2.sl063.cns.vt.edu [128.173.33.170]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA15933 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:21:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32F1F321.7A25@vt.edu> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:26:57 -0500 From: Jason Payne Reply-To: japayne@vt.edu Organization: VT Student X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Multibooting with WindowsNT 4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently tried to install FreeBSD version 2.1.5 however during the installation I aksed it to not write to my master boot record because I have the WindowsNT boot loader there that allows me to boot into NT, 95 and MS-DOS 6.22 However it wrote a new MBR anyway and then I could not recover any of my microsoft installations. Do you have any suggestions on what to do for my next installation ? I had to fix this error by reformatting my harddrive, I would rather not have to do that again. Thanks. Jason Payne japayne@vt.edu