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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: MBR problems :( Date: 24 Jan 1995 22:14:34 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3g3u4a$99j@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <D2IGFx.H8z@serval.net.wsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au cyouse@axposf.pa.dec.com (Charles E. Youse) writes: >I feel like a dolt. Nehh. It took me days to work this one out. >Anyway, i'm a recent FreeBSD convert, I just got the 2.0 release and >(after just littl edifficulty) got it up and running. The problem is, I don't >understand the loader installed on the MBR. I can boot from the distribution >boot floppy, and tell it to boot device wd(0,a), but that's a pain in the butt. When you installed, you told Fdisk to use the whole disk for BSD, and then you wrote the bootmanager. The two are actually incompatible; the bootmanager only works properly when you have multiple partitions under the DOS-style partitioning scheme. My answer was fdisk /mbr under DOS, and reinstall. -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #