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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:16:38 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
To:        rwsaunde@engga.uwo.ca
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot NT and Freebsd
Message-ID:  <36AF1FC6.2D2DAC65@uk.radan.com>
References:  <Pine.SGI.3.95q.990127085340.6086A-100000@sgi46.engga.uwo.ca>

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> My Id is fbsd034649 and I have a oc with Nt on the first ide harddrive
> and have installed FreeBSD on the second IDE harddrive. During the
> install I selected the files to have a boot loader for different drives.
> How do I activate the loader. At present all I have is the standard NT
> loader when I boot the machine....any help would be appreciated..I checked
> the FAQ's but didn't see this specific problem..
> 

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
in BOOT.INI to add a FreeBSD option.

HTH


> Bob Saunders
> UNIX ADMIN.   University Of Western Ontario
>                Faculty of Engineering Science
>                 679-2111 X8306
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