Booting Q.

[Vijay]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 09:24, MIchael Alexander wrote:
> Vijay wrote : Which OS did you install first? Fedora/FreeBSD ? 
> I've FreeBSD first and then RH9. The Grub Seems to load the FBSD without
> any problem.
> 
> 
> 	Fedora was first. I didn't install a boot loader at that time because I
> was having problems with my MBR on previous installs of Mandrake 10 and
> Suse 8.0. By the time I was done poking around trying to fix things I
> ended up crashing the whole bloody thing. So I started from scratch. My
> mate really liked Fedora, but I installed it to boot only from floppy.
> Later I read that the boot manager on FreeBSD was fool-proof. So here I
> am, the fool that is going to test that statement. Installing FreeBSD
> fixed my MNR and boots fine from my HD, but Fed is not recognized as a
> bootable partition with Boot Magic (I didn't install it as it wouldn't
> have fixed my problem).
> 

Try booting into Fedora and set the Linux Partition to be acrive using
fdisk command. Make sure the FreeBSD partition is set to be inactive.

> BTW I have really learned a lot from this list in the short time I have
> been here, thank you all. And I decided to put my music files on a
> separate partition that will be used as a secondary back-up (see file
> sharing across desktops).
> 
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