Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 01:04:04 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: Hi Devin, Apropos sade (sysadmins disk editor). I have it at /usr/sbin/sade and I am running a FreeBSD 8.3. I also mounted FreeBSD 8.1 and FreeBSD 8.2 and found sade at /usr/sbin/ even in these older FreeBSDs. I can't

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-29 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:34:10 +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: On 29/07/2013 08:23, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:23:38 +, Teske, Devin wrote: In this case, sade is (or was) a direct by-product of the death of sysinstall(8). It only exists in 9 or higher. % which sade

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Peter Andreev
mostly speak the Microsoft language). Instead I have configured the BIOS to boot from the MBR on the second disk as I most of the time (99%) use FreeBSD. The MBR on ada1 was installed with sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager, when I installed the FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. (The latest

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Polytropon
language). It's just a series of pictures, not a language. ;-) Instead I have configured the BIOS to boot from the MBR on the second disk as I most of the time (99%) use FreeBSD. The MBR on ada1 was installed with sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager, when I installed

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: A very important question is if sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager detects that I have a FreeBSD 8.3 and detect it as slice 2 on disk 1? I'm not sure I'm following you

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:18:39 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: A very important question is if sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager detects that I have a FreeBSD 8.3

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:18:39 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: A very important question is if sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Ian Smith
was installed with sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager, when I installed the FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. Right. sysinstall(8) - or at least the fdisk and bsdlabel modules that constitute sade(8) - remains the only safe and sane way to handle MBR disks. bsdinstall seems fine

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Conny Andersson
the BIOS to boot from the MBR on the second disk as I most of the time (99%) use FreeBSD. The MBR on ada1 was installed with sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager, when I installed the FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. Right. sysinstall(8) - or at least the fdisk and bsdlabel modules

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Conny Andersson
most of the time (99%) use FreeBSD. The MBR on ada1 was installed with sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager, when I installed the FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. (The latest BIOS version 2.4.0 for Dell T1500 does not support UEFI/GPT/GUID.) The second disk ada1, now has three FreeBSD slices: 1

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Conny Andersson
, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: A very important question is if sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager detects that I have a FreeBSD 8.3 and detect it as slice 2 on disk 1? I'm not sure I'm following you correctly. The sysinstall

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Conny Andersson wrote: Hi Warren and Polytropon, A few minutes ago I booted up from a FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img to experience that it is sysinstall that is used in that release. Next, I did a 'dummy' custom installation. And, as I supposed sysinstall

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Teske, Devin
with sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager, when I installed the FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. Right. sysinstall(8) - or at least the fdisk and bsdlabel modules that constitute sade(8) - remains the only safe and sane way to handle MBR disks. bsdinstall seems fine for GPT, but its

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:23:38 +, Teske, Devin wrote: In this case, sade is (or was) a direct by-product of the death of sysinstall(8). It only exists in 9 or higher. % which sade /usr/sbin/sade System is FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE of August 2011. I think sade has been introduced in a v8 version of

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Conny Andersson
Hi Devin, Apropos sade (sysadmins disk editor). I have it at /usr/sbin/sade and I am running a FreeBSD 8.3. I also mounted FreeBSD 8.1 and FreeBSD 8.2 and found sade at /usr/sbin/ even in these older FreeBSDs. Regards, Conny On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Teske, Devin wrote: In this case, sade is

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Shane Ambler
On 29/07/2013 08:23, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:23:38 +, Teske, Devin wrote: In this case, sade is (or was) a direct by-product of the death of sysinstall(8). It only exists in 9 or higher. % which sade /usr/sbin/sade System is FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE of August 2011. I think

FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-27 Thread Conny Andersson
on the second disk as I most of the time (99%) use FreeBSD. The MBR on ada1 was installed with sysinstall's option Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager, when I installed the FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. (The latest BIOS version 2.4.0 for Dell T1500 does not support UEFI/GPT/GUID.) The second disk ada1, now

Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager

2012-11-11 Thread Manish Jain
Hi, I have never had a problem with dual-booting Win XP and FreeBSD before. Generally, I install XP first and FreeBSD second, putting the Boot Manager to the MBR. Recently, my hard disk started wobbling and I had to replace it with a new Western Digital SATA drive. When all installation

Re: Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager

2012-11-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:09:09 +0530 From: Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com Subject: Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager When all installation work finished, FreeBSD would boot when I press F2 but pressing F1 would fail to boot XP with the error : A disk read error

Re: Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager

2012-11-11 Thread Manish Jain
On 12-Nov-12 02:35, Robert Bonomi wrote: Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:09:09 +0530 From: Manish Jain bourne.ident...@hotmail.com Subject: Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager When all installation work finished, FreeBSD would boot when I press F2 but pressing F1 would fail to boot XP

boot0 boot manager

2012-07-07 Thread iPwn
i have a disk with apple operating system installed, Mac OSX 10.5.8, if i resize the disk and create another partition for FreeBSD and then install FreeBSD on that partition i will obtain the boot0 boot manager when i startup computer? also, it will show the option to load the Mac OSX or i

Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-07-11 Thread Daniel Underwood
When I installed, I created a FreeBSD slice occupying my entire HD. I then created partitions occupying, together, my entire HD. In other words, I never intend to install another OS. I should have chosen *not* to install a boot manager, but I did. Is there anyway now to remove the boot manager

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-07-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
a boot manager, but I did. The boot manager doesn't hurt anything just being there. It takes up only a sector that will not be used by anything else. - - Is there anyway now to remove the boot manager, or at least set it to - automatically select an entry (F1: FreeBSD being the only entry

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-07-11 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: When I installed, I created a FreeBSD slice occupying my entire HD. I then created partitions occupying, together, my entire HD. In other words, I never intend to install another OS. I should have chosen *not* to install a boot manager, but I did

boot manager vista

2009-04-17 Thread John Beukema
I am having trouble with the freebsd boot manager on an ACER Aspire 4730Z laptop. I installed the latest version of FBSD on partition 3. Partition 1 is a 10 G compressed partition with the Windows Vista Home system to install and backup. partition 2 is Windows after installation. I

Re: boot manager vista

2009-04-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
John Beukema wrote: I am having trouble with the freebsd boot manager on an ACER Aspire 4730Z laptop. I installed the latest version of FBSD on partition 3. Partition 1 is a 10 G compressed partition with the Windows Vista Home system to install and backup. partition 2 is Windows

Re: boot manager vista

2009-04-17 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/17 Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com: John Beukema wrote: I am having trouble with the freebsd boot manager on an ACER Aspire 4730Z laptop. I installed the latest version of FBSD on partition 3.  Partition 1 is a 10 G compressed partition with the Windows Vista Home system

Re: configuring the freebsd boot manager

2009-03-30 Thread caleb
Ramiro Caso wrote: Hi everyone, I am having some problems understanding how the freebsd boot manager works. I have installed FreeBSD and Linux on the same laptop HD and want to be able to select which one to boot when the computer starts. I installed the bootmanager to to the MBR during

configuring the freebsd boot manager

2009-03-29 Thread Brett Wigins
Hi everyone, I am having some problems understanding how the freebsd boot manager works. I have installed FreeBSD and Linux on the same laptop HD and want to be able to select which one to boot when the computer starts. I installed the bootmanager to to the MBR during installation and when I

RE: configuring the freebsd boot manager

2009-03-29 Thread Ramiro Caso
Hi everyone, I am having some problems understanding how the freebsd boot manager works. I have installed FreeBSD and Linux on the same laptop HD and want to be able to select which one to boot when the computer starts. I installed the bootmanager to to the MBR during installation

How do I install the standard boot manager?

2009-03-06 Thread Peter Steele
How do I install the standard boot manager on a disk using a command line tool? I believe boot0cfg -B /dev/adN installs the FreeBSD boot manager, but I want the standard boot manager that matches the option in sysinstall. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How do I install the standard boot manager?

2009-03-06 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:32:01PM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: How do I install the standard boot manager on a disk using a command line tool? I believe boot0cfg -B /dev/adN installs the FreeBSD boot manager, but I want the standard boot manager that matches the option in sysinstall

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 21:44 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? I don't know. It's been $years since I've had to use a Windows install CD for such a thing. If it's win32, my experience would have me recommend

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:50 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk,

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:20:50AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:08:02AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:50 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread michael
Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot

[Fwd: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager]

2009-01-15 Thread Da Rock
---BeginMessage--- On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 21:44 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? I don't know. It's been $years since I've had to use a Windows install CD for such a thing. If it's win32, my experience

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread gpeel
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
the paramaters etc. I ahve also tried reinstalling the FreeBSD boot manager, and rerunning the Norton GoBack unhook. If you read through my post on this, note the scenario I narrated. It is quite possible that every time you run that GoBack thing, it is putting back the wrong MBR from its corrupted stash

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Grant Peel
Boot Manager On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:52:07PM -0500, gpeel wrote: Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. I ahve been to the windows recovery console many times and ran the Fixboot, Fixmbr commands, being very meticulous about

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Tore Lund
gpeel wrote: Hi all, Jusat to answer Mike's question, nothing is working to get the MBR and Windows boot back. [snip] I know it won't help you now, but for the general case: It is a very good idea to save MBRs. Restoring an MBR is a quick and painless way to bring back a former state of

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, For those that have been following this thread: I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk, -The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR, -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Copeland
why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless you specifically need fbsd boot manager Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, For those that have been following this thread: I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Michael Copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless you

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Copeland
-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless you specifically need fbsd boot manager Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, For those that have been following this thread: I now have

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Copeland
disk /boot/boot1 will not work, /boot/boot0 is needed. - Original Message - From: Michael Copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:57 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Hello Grant, What I am suggesting is adding

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
to boot to your new FreeBSD installation, but with other folks' help, you can probably overcome that - probably with GRUB, or another boot manager. You should be able to do the same thing with a FreeBSD fixit. Sounds like something got corrupted with the MBR or a boot record somewhere

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:37:28PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: So then, IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then, use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager? Maybe, but better

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
, -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install), -So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original C-Drive, -As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system, -FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but, -I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
- Original Message - From: Michael Copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry -Grant - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Derek Funk
the nt boot loader. Original Message Subject:FreeBSD Boot Manager Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 20:17:15 -0500 From: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Copeland
08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box. In that machine, there is one SATA drive

FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box. In that machine, there is one SATA drive. On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it. During the install, I opted to use the

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Kurt Buff
with GRUB, or another boot manager. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
, you can probably overcome that - probably with GRUB, or another boot manager. Technically (theoretically) speaking, using a Win32 boot disk to fdisk /mbr, he should be able to re-initialize the FBSD boot loader by going through the steps he did initially. AFAIR, Symantec GoBack, along with many

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Grant Peel
Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? -Grant - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager On Thu

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Grant Peel
So then, IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then, use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager? -Grant - Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca To: Kurt

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Grant Peel wrote: So then, IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then, use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager? Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at. Steve

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? I don't know. It's been $years since I've had to use a Windows install CD for such a thing. If it's win32, my experience would have me recommend just booting from a floppy of a win boot disk to restore the MBR.

Re: boot manager oddity (two IDE drives, two o/s)

2007-10-26 Thread Mark Moellering
On Thursday 25 October 2007 8:38 am, William Bulley wrote: I have two IDE drives (ad0 and ad1) on a Dell system that is running Windows XP on ad0 and FreeBSD 6.2 on ad1. Drive ad0 is 80 GB. Drive ad1 is 250 GB. When I installed FreeBSD onto ad1, I installed the FreeBSD boot manager onto

boot manager oddity (two IDE drives, two o/s)

2007-10-25 Thread William Bulley
I have two IDE drives (ad0 and ad1) on a Dell system that is running Windows XP on ad0 and FreeBSD 6.2 on ad1. Drive ad0 is 80 GB. Drive ad1 is 250 GB. When I installed FreeBSD onto ad1, I installed the FreeBSD boot manager onto both ad0 and ad1 disk drives. When the machine powers up from

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2007-03-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:06:51PM -0700, Jim Priovolos wrote: How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the boot manager that asks if I want

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Priovolos
- Original Message From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Priovolos [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:30:31 PM Subject: Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager You can boot the windows repair console and use fixmbr command from there. -Derek

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2007-03-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:06:51PM -0700, Jim Priovolos wrote: How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the boot manager

Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2007-03-24 Thread Jim Priovolos
How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing that is installed now is the boot manager that asks if I want to start in Windows or BSD. I'd like to get rid of that until I can figure

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2007-03-24 Thread Derek Ragona
You can boot the windows repair console and use fixmbr command from there. -Derek At 08:06 PM 3/24/2007, Jim Priovolos wrote: How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing

some issues about partitions and boot manager in dual boot cases with Windows

2006-10-18 Thread danan
a little space between his 2 partitions of the disk (the first with Windows, the second of Linux). And a last thing, even more worring: the booting and the MBR; do I have to leave the MBR untouched or to install the freeBSD boot manager in MBR ? In a Linux manual it is clearly specified

Re: some issues about partitions and boot manager in dual boot cases with Windows

2006-10-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
don't have to do anything extra - other than the remote possibility of having to wipe the tables on that slice using dd as I mentioned above. And a last thing, even more worring: the booting and the MBR; do I have to leave the MBR untouched or to install the freeBSD boot manager in MBR

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-01 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Garrett Cooper thusly... Eric Anderson wrote: This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional. I don't have enough asm

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-05-01 02:05, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html I hand edited the file (/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S) based on the given patch; did building|installing of world kernel;

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-01 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Giorgos Keramidas thusly... On 2006-05-01 02:05, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html I hand edited the file (/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S)

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-04-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Eric Anderson wrote: This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional. I don't have enough asm-fu to make that option happen, but I can tell you

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-04-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-30 21:36, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional. I don't have enough asm-fu

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Jud and friends: Note: At least one of the prompts ended with: # localhost Benjamin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Danny Butroyd
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Jud and friends: OK, I finally figured out how to make OSL2000 work. In scanning all bootable partitions, it lists FreeBSD as two partitions: the 512 MB /boot partition (name unknown) and the FreeBSD 37 GB partition. It will not boot FreeBSD from the FreeBSD

Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: [Dell 8200] First, my thanks to everyone who was kind enough to respond to my problem booting up to FreeBSD 6. I did a complete, fresh install from the CD and made sure to also configure the FreeBSD boot manager for MBR. Everything should be working but I still can't boot up

Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: [Dell 8200] First, my thanks to everyone who was kind enough to respond to my problem booting up to FreeBSD 6. I did a complete, fresh install from the CD and made sure to also configure the FreeBSD boot manager for MBR. Everything should be working but I still can't boot up. So

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Jud
the FreeBSD boot manager for MBR. Everything should be working but I still can't boot up. So, I downloaded and installed OSL2000 (latest version: Nov, 2005). It is supposed to boot up as many as 100 OS's. It lists all bootable media, including Windows and FreeBSD. Windows boots up perfectly but when I

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
:45:41 -0500, Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Dear friends: [Dell 8200] First, my thanks to everyone who was kind enough to respond to my problem booting up to FreeBSD 6. I did a complete, fresh install from the CD and made sure to also configure the FreeBSD boot manager for MBR

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Jud
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:41:15 +, Danny Butroyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Jud and friends: OK, I finally figured out how to make OSL2000 work. In scanning all bootable partitions, it lists FreeBSD as two partitions: the 512 MB /boot partition (name unknown) and

Re: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows

2006-03-21 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Jud and friends: OK, I finally figured out how to make OSL2000 work. Good, I guess. :-) In scanning all bootable partitions, it lists FreeBSD as two partitions: the 512 MB /boot partition (name unknown) and the FreeBSD 37 GB partition. It will not boot FreeBSD

boot manager linux/bsd dual boot

2005-11-07 Thread John Cox
I am preparing for a freeBSD install on my laptop with XP and Fedora. I am familiar with Grub and would like to use that to boot freeBSD. Can someone point me to an example of a grub.conf (menu.lst) entry that will work? Or How do I configure boot manager to boot Fedora

Re: boot manager linux/bsd dual boot

2005-11-07 Thread martinko
John Cox wrote: I am preparing for a freeBSD install on my laptop with XP and Fedora. I am familiar with Grub and would like to use that to boot freeBSD. Can someone point me to an example of a grub.conf (menu.lst) entry that will work? Or How do I configure boot manager to boot Fedora

Dual Boot, Boot manager

2005-10-05 Thread Joshua Lewis
I installed 5.4 on a second drive and I realize now the boot manager I installed is on the second drive and not loaded in the MBR of my Primary drive. Is there a way to load the FreeBSD boot manager onto my primary drive from within windows? Or do I have to reboot to the CD and load it from

Re: Dual Boot, Boot manager

2005-10-05 Thread Peter Clutton
On 10/6/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 5.4 on a second drive and I realize now the boot manager I installed is on the second drive and not loaded in the MBR of my Primary drive. Is there a way to load the FreeBSD boot manager onto my primary drive from within windows

Re: Reinstalling the standard boot manager

2005-09-05 Thread Yuan Jue
On Sunday 04 September 2005 12:20, Yuan Jue wrote: On 2005-09-04 09:31, Yuan Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 04 September 2005 08:53, Yuan Jue wrote: boot0cfg -v -B /dev/ad0 when doing this, I got a message: boot0cfg: write_mbr: /dev/ad0: No such file or directory I use it as

Re: Reinstalling the standard boot manager

2005-09-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-05 23:31, Yuan Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b) ad0 is really the disk, and not ad1 or something else I am pretty sure that is ad0. Then it's weird that /dev doesn't have a /dev/ad0 device. What do you have mounted as your root device? # mount What do you see by:

Re: Reinstalling the standard boot manager

2005-09-05 Thread Yuan Jue
On Monday 05 September 2005 23:37, Yuan Jue wrote: On 2005-09-05 23:31, Yuan Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b) ad0 is really the disk, and not ad1 or something else I am pretty sure that is ad0. Then it's weird that /dev doesn't have a /dev/ad0 device. What do you have mounted as your

Reinstalling the standard boot manager

2005-09-03 Thread Frederick N. Brier
How do I reinstall just the standard MBR/Boot Manager without effecting anything else or accidentally doing a reinstall? Frederick N. Brier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Reinstalling the standard boot manager

2005-09-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-03 20:50, Frederick N. Brier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I reinstall just the standard MBR/Boot Manager without effecting anything else or accidentally doing a reinstall? # boot0cfg -v -B /dev/ad0 Replace /dev/ad0 with the disk you want to install the bootmanager

Re: Reinstalling the standard boot manager

2005-09-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-04 09:31, Yuan Jue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 04 September 2005 08:53, Yuan Jue wrote: boot0cfg -v -B /dev/ad0 when doing this, I got a message: boot0cfg: write_mbr: /dev/ad0: No such file or directory I use it as root and my disk is ad0. What did I do wrong? Check

Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have a PC with two hard drives, one (master) dedicated FreeBSD the other (slave) dedicated XP. The XP was preinstalled, and to avoid any confusion, I disconnected the disk while installing FreeBSD. Now, I'd like to configure the FreeBSD boot manager to dual boot. In the menu, I can

Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
to configure the FreeBSD boot manager to dual boot. In the menu, I can choose FreeBSD or Disk 1, but choosing the latter does not boot XP. How do I postconfigure the boot manager? Windows, including XP, wants to boot off the C-drive (the first boot device that is). So either you switch your

Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Norgaard
disks. setup A) Master: FreeBSD Slave: XP If I disable the master disk I boot XP fine - although the disk is slave. If I enable both, I get the FreeBSD boot manager with the FreeBSD as master disk with two options: F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk 1 setup B) Master: XP Slave: FreeBSD If I enable both, I

Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread Robert Slade
disconnected the disk while installing FreeBSD. Now, I'd like to configure the FreeBSD boot manager to dual boot. In the menu, I can choose FreeBSD or Disk 1, but choosing the latter does not boot XP. How do I postconfigure the boot manager? Windows, including XP, wants to boot off the C-drive

Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:25:23 +0100 Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:03, dick hoogendijk wrote: Windows, including XP, wants to boot off the C-drive (the first boot device that is). So either you switch your drives OR you setup the BIOS to boot of the SECOND

Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager

2005-08-29 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
the FreeBSD bootmanager (or some other multiboot boot manager) on the XP disk? On the boot disk, at least. And depending on which BM you use, maybe also on the other disk. (Unless you want to have your BM on a floppy or CDROM. It's been more than 5 years since I had a multiboot, so I'd like

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