Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:29:47 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating bootsector file for W2k boot menu Message-ID: <20021205142947.GB3654@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <15854.32811.323124.889597@ultrahot.finland.sun.com> References: <15854.32811.323124.889597@ultrahot.finland.sun.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2002-12-05 00:22, Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM> wrote: > I've used Windows NT boot menu for years to boot FreeBSD from the > second disk on my machines. I've used bootpart DOS program to do this > but now I can't find correct way to do FreeBSD boot block for it. > Earlier there was a diskid definition in some Makefile to change. How > should I do this now? I have FreeBSD installed on two primary slices of my machine, as you can see from the df(1) output below. I can boot FreeBSD fine, if I copy the boot record of the slice my root partition lives in: # df / Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 498078 85920 372312 19% / # dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/root/bsdboot.bin bs=512 count=1 Then copy bsdboot.bin to a Windows partition, say in C:\BSDBOOT.BIN and add the following to the C:\BOOT.INI file: C:\BSDBOOT.BIN="FreeBSD on ad0s1" That should be all... Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20021205142947.GB3654>