From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 25 10:23:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA14130 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:23:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA14121 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA23099 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:20:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:20:41 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" Message-Id: <199707251720.MAA23099@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: NT4, FBSD, different disks and booting X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mine is a quite common situation, I would think. Description: a new PentiumPro, which, of course, comes with an IDE disk. Not wanting to demean ;) FreeBSD by installing it on the IDE disk, I installed FBSD on an external 4 GB SCSI (not "dangerously dedicated", just the standard slice install). NT 4.0 workstation is living on the whole IDE disk (I need to boot BT sometimes to use Excel and Word). I went to the FAQ to see how to setup the NT bootmanager to handle the dual boot, where I see that the recipe only works if both are on the same disk. Aha, says I, I just need a customized boot block. So I went to the biosboot directory where I compiled a bootblock with BOOT_HD_BIAS=1, substituted boot1 (obtained after the make) for the boot block normally acquired via dd in the recipe, and still got a "no bootable partition" error, with no FBSD boot. Does anyone know how to handle this type of (likely quite common) situation? Booting off a floppy is getting old fast. Bud Dodson PS, I posted this on usenet, but doubting there would be any response there, I'm also posting here. I should have just posted here; sorry for the slight spam. -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790