From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 15:54:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.btinternet.com (carbon.btinternet.com [194.73.73.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D185E37B873 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.137.109] (helo=parish.my.domain) by carbon.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12hgsl-0006Vj-00; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:54:11 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA04084; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:54:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:54:07 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Nils Holland Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Problem Message-ID: <20000418235407.A3899@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from nils@frozenfeelings.com on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 12:41:49AM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 12:41:49AM +0200, Nils Holland wrote: > I seem to have a boot problem which I will eplain in detail below. I hope > that someone can help me. > > Well, I have a computer that has Windows NT 4.0 Workstation installed on > the hard disk connected to the primary IDE port as master (Disk0). The > whole partition is dedicated to WinNT. Now there is another HD in that > computer. It's connected to the secondary IDE port as master (Disk1?). On > that HD I installed FreeBSD. During the installation I said that I wanted > to use the FreeBSD boot manager to allow me to choose betwen the two > operating systems. After the installation, however, the system restarted > and WinNT took over control without the FreeBSD bootmanager ever showing > up. Personally, I use the NT boot manager to start FreeBSD. See http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN1776 for details of how to do this. Note that because FreeBSD is on a different disk to NT you need to use boot0. HTH > I then booted from a DOS-disk and used bootinst.exe from the FreeBSD > /tools directory. When I tell it to write a boot sector to the first disk > (the disk on which WinNT is installed) it seems to work, but when I > re-boot the WinNT boot-loader takes over control againg without me ever > seeing the FreeBSD bootmanager. The only thing I can do is the > following: I can install the FreeBSD bootmanager on the 2nd HD (on which > FreeBSD is installed) and then I can to to my BIOS and tell it to start > from that drive. This works, but that way I can only boot FreeBSD, in > order to get back to WinNT (well, I don't want to use it anyways, but > there are others around here who want) I have to tell my BIOS again to > boot from the NT-Disk. > This is not very practical. I remember that once upon a time I used Linux > with LILO on that 2nd HD of the computer and I could install LILO to the > first HD. At boot time, LILO asked me whether to use Linux or NT. If I > selected Linux, it booted it from the 2nd drive. When I selected NT, the > NT bootloader popped up and started NT. Something like that should be > possible with FreeBSD! I hope that someone can help me with this problem! > > Greetings, > Nils > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message