Boot manager not installing in mbr

[Thomas Lippert]

On Wed Aug 11 20:59:08 2004 Karl Friedrich Gauss wrote:

> I'm trying to install freebsd 4.10 on second hard-drive. On the first 
> hard drive is winXP. When I run sysinstall from a cd-rom, it seems to 
> be unable to modify the mdr of my first hard drive. I tried to go into 
> fdisk, the just quit and install boot manager on first hard disk. It 
> doesn't work.
>
> When I reboot, I still enter in windows. What can I do?

As long as you have winXP installed why not use the ntloader.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER 

answers all of the relevant questions. Before i nuked windows from my
laptop this worked well.
cheers,
Thomas

>
> Jeremie
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> MSN® Calendar keeps you organized and takes the effort out of 
> scheduling get-togethers. 
> http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines 
>  Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN® Premium right now and get the 
> first two months FREE*.
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>