Re: Boot and MBR. Thank YOU!

2004-02-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Sorry for being such a pest, my boss kept asking why my computer wasn't > working, and I'm not ready to ready for him to know I've got BSD loaded. > I was in panic mode because I couldn't get my Windows XP screens and > applications to come up. I deeply apologize, I was finally able to read >

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 8:46 AM To: HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER; Mark Weisman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:03 -0500, "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jud wrote: [snip] 3. Install GAG, a free, easy and

RE: Boot and MBR. Thank YOU!

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Weisman
Sorry for being such a pest, my boss kept asking why my computer wasn't working, and I'm not ready to ready for him to know I've got BSD loaded. I was in panic mode because I couldn't get my Windows XP screens and applications to come up. I deeply apologize, I was finally able to read all of your m

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Jud
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:06:43 -0900, "Mark Weisman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've installed GAG, and that is a really easy setup! It identified all > the partitions, and what was in them, stepped me through the process of > copying the manager to the disk and everything, kudos for the > recommen

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Weisman
-Original Message- From: Jud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 8:46 AM To: HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER; Mark Weisman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:03 -0500, "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: &g

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Jud
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:03 -0500, "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Jud wrote: [snip] > > 3. Install GAG, a free, easy and automagical boot loader. > http://gag.sourceforge.net/>. > You can also Grub it up: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ > http://www.daemonnews.org/20

Re: booting into X (was: Boot and MBR (Gnome))

2004-02-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:45:18AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: > > > I did this just last night; this seems to do it > > (and I was a bad boy, just hacked it w/o looking > > at the docs) > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [/home/kadmin][10:26] > > #cat

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Weisman
thaniel Weisman Site Master Mystic1.net -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:24 AM To: Mark Weisman Cc: Jerry McAllister; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. > > Just out of curiosity what is the order in

booting into X (was: Boot and MBR (Gnome))

2004-02-27 Thread Robert Huff
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: > I did this just last night; this seems to do it > (and I was a bad boy, just hacked it w/o looking > at the docs) > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [/home/kadmin][10:26] > #cat /etc/ttys | grep gdm > ttyv0 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm"cons25 on se

Re: Boot and MBR (Gnome)

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:11:28PM -0900, Mark Weisman wrote: The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on these two would be awesome. Thanks. If you're a Gnome user, t

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
the whole unused cylinder was official boot mangler space. jerry > > Res Ipsa Loquitor, > Mark-Nathaniel Weisman > Site Master > Mystic1.net > > > -----Original Message- > From: Mark Weisman > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:59 PM > To: Jerry McA

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
You can also Grub it up: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ http://www.daemonnews.org/200102/grub.html Grub is a popular and well-supported OSS boot loader HTH, Chris Jud wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:18:01 -0900, Mark Weisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just out of curiosity what is the

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:11:28PM -0900, Mark Weisman wrote: > The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my > rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on > these two would be awesome. Thanks. Other people have described how you can arrange for star

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Jud
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:21:25 -0900, Mark Weisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've tried setting the MBR within fdisk from the FBSD side of the house, however, it won't set. I go through all the motions, yet when it goes to write it says that it can't write to drsk ad0. I then went into a do

Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Weisman
I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and had it take control of the MBR. I know that the other partition is still bootable if I

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had > WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP > installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and > had it take control of the MBR. I know that the other partition is still > b

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Weisman
preciated. Res Ipsa Loquitor, Mark-Nathaniel Weisman Site Master Mystic1.net -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:27 PM To: Mark Weisman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. > > I've got my pr

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Weisman
this thing online. I need my workstation back as soon as possible. Thanks. Res Ipsa Loquitor, Mark-Nathaniel Weisman Site Master Mystic1.net -Original Message- From: Mark Weisman Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:59 PM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Boot an

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Robert Storey
> > The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my > > rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on > > these two would be awesome. Thanks. > > I have not been successfule with that sort of thing. Anyway, I > don't think just putting it in rc.conf w

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Jud
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:18:01 -0900, Mark Weisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just out of curiosity what is the order in creating a dual boot system? Which operating system do you put on first? I see that having WinXP setup in partitions is not a good idea, yet I'm not aware of how to load the syste

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Weisman
gt; From: Jud > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:49 PM > To: Mark Weisman; Jerry McAllister > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:18:01 -0900, Mark Weisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just out