From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 27 11:38:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29500 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:38:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29491 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:38:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rpj@fep.hirshfields.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id NAA08467 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:38:45 -0600 (CST) Received: (from rpj@localhost) by fep.hirshfields.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12775 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:21:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rpj) From: "Roger P. Johnson" Message-Id: <199901271921.NAA12775@fep.hirshfields.com> Subject: Re: Boot Manager In-Reply-To: <36AF4366.862A258D@uk.radan.com> from Mark Ovens at "Jan 27, 99 04:48:38 pm" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:21:12 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Kevin Sharp wrote: > > > > I have two hard drives installed in my computer: one for Windows 98/Windows > > NT and the other dedicated to FreeBSD. I managed to get FreeBSD installed > > on the second drive, but the boot manager does not work. I still see the > > Windows NT boot manager. I even tried adding an entry in boot.ini to point > > to the second drive, but whenever I choose that option I get a page fault > > error. Is there a way I can either get the FreeBSD boot manager to install > > on my C drive or to get my current boot manager to start up FreeBSD? > > > > If you've got NT on the box the easiest thing to do is to add FreeBSD > to NT's boot manager. It's in the FAQ, "Can I add FreeBSd to the NT > boot manager" or similar wording. IIRC it's section 2.25. > > Basically you just copy the first sector of the FreeBSD partition > (using dd(1)) to a file on C:\, e.g. BOOTSECT.BSD, and clone the entry > for booting DOS/W95 in BOOT.INI to add a FreeBSD option. But I believe that only works IF both NT and FreeBSD are on the _same_ hard drive. Not on seperate drives as he state above. I have the same problem at home and just boot off of the boot floppy when I need FreeBSD. Search the mailing list archives ... Roger > > HTH > > > Kevin Sharp > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message