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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!bowl.news.pipex.net!pipex!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.cybernet.dk!news.onramp.net!newshost.cyberramp.net!excalibur.flash.net!news-in.iadfw.net!news.gymnet.com!LSNT1!lsbsdi6.lightspeed.net!news-ana-7.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!news-west.sprintlink.net!new s-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!visi.com!news-out.visi.com!not-for-mail From: learned@iname.com (Ed Learned) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How 2 install BootManager? Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 02:28:40 GMT Organization: (missing) Lines: 28 Sender: learned@www.harmonic.com Message-ID: <763E9F69981DC10F.E1FA7277229EA035.1DD02AD33AF45207@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <338e3b0c.449642@news.visi.com> References: <230597c2045@semyam.dinoco.de> Reply-To: learned@iname.com NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.0/32.390 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42158 On Fri, 23 May 1997 20:45:09 +0200, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de (Stefan Eggers) wrote: | Hi! | | Today I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1.7 on a system with two harddisks. | First one was the old harddisk with Windows 95 and the second the new | one reserved for FreeBSD (with Linux emulation) or Linux. | | From a previous attempt to install Linux the MBR contained LILO. So far | no problem I thought. Installing FreeBSD should replace it by his own | boot manager. And after creating the slices and partitions it asked if I | wanted to have a boot manager, put the standard MBR in this place or | just leave it alone. | | Either I made a stupid mistake (if so just tell me) or choosing the BSD | boot manager as I did didn't install it on the first harddisk. At least | LILO is still there. Is there a way to install the boot manager alone? | Or how can I install it afterwards? | | If it matters: This was installing with the installation source on a | dos partition as BSD didn't like the NEC CDR 272. :-( I have the opposite problem, I have the FreeBSD bootmgr installed in the MBR, and I want to replace it with just the normal MBR or LILO, as I have Red Hat inststalled instead of FreeBSD, and the FreeBSD bootmgr wont boot Linux. Any suggestions?