Installing FreeBSD 5.1 - Boot manager doesnt install itself

[Jud]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:40:19 -0700, <y.patil at attbi.com> wrote:

> I have two disks on my machine - the first has WinNT while the second 
> had linux. I used Lilo
> to select which OS I wanted to boot.
>
> Replacing linux, I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on the second disk. In 
> spite of selecting
> the Boot manager for installation, it still doesn't seem to install 
> itself. I still see the Lilo menu at
> boot time.
>
> When selecting the boot manager option during installation, I am asked 
> on which disk the
> operation should be performed on, and it selects ad1 (the second disk) 
> by default. Using ad1
> as the default suggested choice results in no boot manager prompt after 
> install completes. If I
> select ad0 instead, I get an error message saying "only one fat allowed 
> as a child of whole".
>
> Whats the problem here? Thanks in advance
>
> Yatin

If you want to use FreeBSD's boot loader, install it on both disks.

Jud