Date: 16 Jan 2001 14:37:55 -0500 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com> To: Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R install on HP Vectra won't boot: no bootmgr, cursor hangs Message-ID: <lfwvbvl23w.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: Joe Oliveiro's message of "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:41:29 -0500 (EST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101161140510.1285-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com>
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:41:29 -0500 (EST), Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com> said: Joe> I know some BIOS's prevent programs from writing to the MBR. You Joe> might want to check your bios for some sort of virus protections Joe> and if it does hand it and is enabled disable it. That had occurred to me and I'm 99.9999% certain I disabled this BIOS misfeature. That's also why I mentioned the other two OSes that were on the two disks I tried: the computer initially saw the old OS partitions on both disks, but after the FreeBSD install, it didn't present me with the bootmgr or the error that (in the one case) Solaris wasn't found. So it sounds like it *did* overwrite the MBR. Right? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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