Re: Dual boot solution

2005-09-26 Thread K Wieland
I haven't done enough installations recently to answer. Are you saying that if you leave the "fdisk" screen with no primary partition marked active or with the MSFT one marked active, then it switches it to the soon-to-be-FreeBSD one? One of the installer's help files says: If no slice is m

Re: Dual boot solution

2005-09-21 Thread K Wieland
On Sep 21, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: K Wieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If anyone could add to this I would be interested. I suppose that you say Even if you choose not to alter the MBR. because of the last install menu item below { { "BootMgr","Install the

Re: Dual boot solution

2005-09-21 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
K Wieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If anyone could add to this I would be interested. I suppose that you say > Even if you choose not to alter the MBR. because of the last install menu item below { { "BootMgr", "Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager", { "Standard", "Install a

Dual boot solution

2005-09-21 Thread K Wieland
All, I have a dual boot setup with windows 2000 and freebsd 5.4 (amd64). Everything was set up using ntldr to dual boot so I could "learn" freebsd meanwhile my wife could still use the computer. I recently wiped 5.4 and installed 6.0B4 and in the setup chose not to load any boot managers (N