Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:48:11 -0700 From: "Kerry Davis" <kedavis@uswest.net> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place Message-ID: <0cd301c0348d$bc4cd980$0200000a@system>
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how do I reinstall ONLY the Boot Manager? without going through the whole install thing again? -----Original Message----- From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Kerry Davis <kedavis@uswest.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org <questions@freebsd.org> Date: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place > > Some how, don't know how, but FreeBSD didn't quite install the MBR >right. fdisk /mbr, then reinstalled Boot manager... works fine now... > > > Rick > > >Rick's FreeBSD Help Site! http://www.1nova.com/freebsd >Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware >***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org > >On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Kerry Davis wrote: > >> Before or after installing BSD? >> >> Unless the BSD install screws with the boot sector for some reason, other >> than installing its own Boot Manager, I don't see why it would matter. And >> if I don't tell it to install the Boot Manager, how can I dual boot to >> either OS? And if it does install the Boot Manager, and the Boot Manager >> doesn't work - which seems to be the case, one way or another - then how >> would replacing the MBR with the DOS version be an improvement? I'd end up >> only being able to boot DOS on that system. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> >> To: Kerry Davis <kedavis@uswest.net> >> Cc: questions@freebsd.org <questions@freebsd.org> >> Date: Thursday, October 12, 2000 10:10 AM >> Subject: Re: Install with DOS partition already in place >> >> >> > >> >> Can someone explain to me why the FreeBSD 4.1 install doesn't work >> properly >> >> if I already have a DOS partition in place? >> > >> > I just did the same thing last night to test. You have to do the >> >good ol' fdisk /mbr from a DOS boot disk. >> > >> > Rick >> > >> > >> >> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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