From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 5:27:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [194.138.37.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7F637B723 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 05:27:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ust@cert.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: ust@cert.siemens.de (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f2DDROC18000; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:27:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from mars.cert.siemens.de (ust.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.201.17]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f2DDROK23262; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:27:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from alaska.cert.siemens.de (reims.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.202.134]) by mars.cert.siemens.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/Siemens CERT [ $Revision: 1.8 ]) with ESMTP id f2DDROx23267; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:27:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ust@alaska.cert.siemens.de) Received: (from ust@localhost) by alaska.cert.siemens.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/alaska [ $Revision: 1.5 ]) id f2DDROq33924; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:27:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:27:23 +0100 From: Udo Schweigert To: Ben Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BootMgr and Dual Boot? Message-ID: <20010313142723.A33565@alaska.cert.siemens.de> References: <003401c0abc0$62bfc760$6102a00a@nhqadmin17> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003401c0abc0$62bfc760$6102a00a@nhqadmin17>; from ben@cahostnet.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:20:34AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-BETA Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:20:34 -0500, Ben wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD on my workstation after using Linux for > couple of days. During the install where it asks whether you want > BootMgr or Standard I think I chose Standard. I have W2K on the > other partition so I will need to boot to that as well using BSD boot > manager. I haven't finished the install because I had to work today > and it' s my home machine so I'll finish it tonight. But if I did > pick Standard which means I can only boot BSD, how can I fix this? I > will like to be able to boot both NT and BSD using BSD boot manager. > At least that was my plan. I installed 4.2-RELEASE and will be > upgrading to 4.2-STABLE right after my install. > If you choosed "Standard" the partition marked "active" will be booted (normally this is the FreeBSD partition, because the install-program marks a created FreeBSD partition as active). To boot W2K you can do: - mark the W2K partition active (but you can only boot W2K now) - install the BSD boot manager (see: man boot0cfg, normally something like "boot0cfg -Bv /dev/ad0" does it) Best regards -- Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 CT IC 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : ust@cert.siemens.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message