From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 2: 8:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF79237B6BD for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 02:08:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@neomedia.it) Received: from localhost (ppp1-pa5.neomedia.it [195.103.207.113]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA29868; Sun, 21 May 2000 11:07:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 10:09:35 GMT Message-ID: <20000521.10093500@mis.configured.host> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy (ie, without a bootloader on the hard disk) To: "Paul Moore" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Further down the line, I'd like to add FreeBSD as an option to my NT > bootloader (I do not want to switch bootloaders, even if the FreeBSD=20 one is > better...). To do this, I should only need a suitable MBR image which = I can > store in a file on the NT boot drive, and I can then change NT's=20 BOOT.INI to > add FreeBSD. For later reference, can anyone tell me how I get a=20 FreeBSD > MBR? (On Linux, I install the Linux MBR on the Linux disk instead of=20 the > boot disk, and then peel it off using dd - is there an option to do=20 this > with FreeBSD?) > Thanks for any help, > Paul Moore. > PS In case I didn't make it clear, my key requirement is to make no=20 change > at all to my existing NT disk - I want to isolate all my FreeBSD work = to the > second disk (at least for now). Dear Paul Moore, You might find the multi-os stuff (and related links) interesting,=20 which stuff is also found on-line at=20 http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multi-os/index.html ; also, you might=20 want to search the archives for NT & FreeBSD booting issues. AFAIR,=20 specific problems have been discussed extensively a good number of=20 times. I, too, use, (multa) inter alia, NT on the same box (3 HDs), but I=20 have adopted a different approach - ie I use a "fancy" boot loader --=20 which I don't feel like naming publicly for ... spam reasons. Good luck, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message