From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 19:18: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866D937B502 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:18:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.143]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA29598; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:17:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA21712; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:17:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA21708; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:17:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac3.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:17:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Barry Attai Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows ME & FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20001008192325.00a70100@mail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oh alright, that never happened for me, usually the bootmanager just got killed.. I have FreeBSD on a seperate disk though. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Barry Attai wrote: > Thanks, what I actually needed to do was I needed to set the BSD > partition as active as it seems that the installation of Windows ME > "deactivated" the BSD partition. > > To do that I created the 2 installations disks kern.flp and msroot.flp > booted into my BSD partition and ran /stand/sysinstall from there I set the > partion as active, had it install the boot manager and then commited it. > > I rebooted and it worked. > > > > At 04:15 PM 08/10/2000 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > >That's b/c a lot of the "DOS" stuff that was still in windows 98 isn't > >there anymore. You will have to find a dos/win95/win98 boot floppy and run > >that exe from there. > > > > > >================================================================= > >| Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | > >| Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > >| and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | > >| The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > >| College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > >================================================================= > > > >On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Barry Attai wrote: > > > > > Recently upgraded (if you can call it that) to Windows ME, of course it > > > blows away my boot loader so I can't dual boot. When I try to reinstall > > > the boot loader through bootinst.exe it returns a error 3 message as if it > > > can't write to the partion. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message