Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:54:12 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> To: BFD <bfd@pcisys.net> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding the FreeBSD Handbook -- Suggestion for 3rd edition Message-ID: <3C3F18B4.5070306@pittgoth.com> References: <3C3F13C0.6010608@pcisys.net>
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BFD wrote: > Hello, > No mention of the fact that, if another OS overwrites your FreeBSD MBR (ie 95) then you will not be able to boot back into FreeBSD, sometimes LILO can notice the FreeBSD partition, but not always, and a "newbie" will almost certainly not understand how to handle this on their first attempt. You will then need a FreeBSD boot disk which will take you to some sort of shell (not much experiance on fix-it disks, but I think the sysinstall(8) utility has an option somewhere to start a shell) where this command could be run. I think an extra <para> would do the trick there. Someone may also wish to mention how to clean up LILO (/sbin/lilo -u) or offer a quick walk-me through adding a FreeBSD boot to /etc/lilo.conf so that could be useful is someone just comming to FreeBSD does not wish to give up Linux as their main OS. Currently the time for me to make these corrections is unavailble, in about a week or 2 if someone does not touch this, then I will see about touching up the chapter :) -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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