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From: chad@pengar.com (Chad Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Installing the freebsd boot manager
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 11:58:45 -0600
Organization: Pengar Enterprises, Inc.
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I installed FreeBSD on my home machine on the second IDE disk with an (A
-- all -- whole disk) install.  It (installer) said that because it was
installing on a disk that was not the boot disk that it would later on
write out the freebsd boot manager thingy on the main boot disk. 
Unfortunately, it seems to have forgotten that step.


I need to know how to just install the boot manager on my main boot disk
(or how to convince the NT Boot Manager to boot FreeBSD).  The main boot
disk boots into the NT Boot Manager and allows (currently) selection of
WNT or W95.

Aside: I can tell the PC to boot from D or whatever in the BIOS setup and
then the FreeBSD boot comes up but it cannot mount root as the D drive
seems to now be the 0 drive instead of wd2 like it was on install...


Thanks for help

Chad