Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!seventek From: seventek@nntp.best.com (Caffiene Dependent) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Argh! FreeBSD (or BootMGR iskrunking my dos boot infor.. Date: 1 Jun 1996 22:00:16 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4oqehg$r63@nntp1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Has anyone else experienced this problem? I just installed FreeBSD on my Altima (a.k.a. patriot 4000) notebook. I used the following process: Fdisked the drive into a 50 and 160 M partitions. Installed DOS (6.0) on the 50 meg. Installed FreeBSD on the 160 meg, + BootMGR. Then I booted, chose dos, and it worked. Then I rebooted, chose FreeBSD, then Rebooted again, chose dos, and got a Non-system disk or disk error message. If I re-install dos, I can use it, but If I run FreeBSD, Dos will die, and I will have to re-install dos. (I can get in via floppy, and all the files are there.) It seems that FreeBSD is somehow krunking up the DOS boot info. This has never happened on any of my desktop machines. --Ben (seventek@best.com)