Questions on first-time installation

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:30:33AM -0500, Bob Schwartz wrote:

>  >>Be really careful. The windows boot loader should be able to boot a
> freebsd install for you.<,
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Either one works for me as long as I get full choice. If the windows loader
> simply picks up bsd and offers it in addition to the two windows installs
> that I need, no problem. Ditto if the bsd boot manager hands me off to the
> windows boot manager and gives me both choices.
> 
> My concern...and I was going to write the group and ask...is that bsd's
> manager only returns one of the windows systems.
> 
> What do you think, please?

Well, I am losing track a little, but one thing may be relevant
and that is that you must install an MBR on each of the disks that 
will have a bootable slice - not just the one with the bootable 
FreeBSD slice.   

This in installed by FreeBSD fdisk with the -B flag and the drive
as a parameter.  If you don't have an MBR on the drive, it will
ignore any bootable slices on that drive.

////jerry

> 
> >> Dell usually ship their machines with a small partition at the front of
> the drive (at least, they did last time I received one). That partition is
> at an odd offset and didn't agree with the FBSD partition editor: I found
> this out the hard way. Things may have changed since then; I usually nuke
> the dell partition anyway.<<
> 
> They still do...and while I could nuke it, now that I have windows installs
> that I don't want to disturb, I am afraid to.
> 
> If I leave them there, what, in your experience, happens?
> 
> Thanks, jan....
> 
> PS  off to have my bangers and mash<g>
> 
> Bob Schwartz
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