From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 27 06:17:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19459 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 06:17:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA19452 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 06:17:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 105Vml-0001sE-00; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:17:39 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id OAA00302; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:17:06 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08138; Wed, 27 Jan 99 14:17:05 GMT Message-Id: <36AF1FC6.2D2DAC65@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:16:38 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: rwsaunde@engga.uwo.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot NT and Freebsd References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG " > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message