From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 28 5:41:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta02.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900C937B43C for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 05:41:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piii ([203.55.241.41]) by mta02.mail.mel.aone.net.au with SMTP id <20000928124115.YSPA348.mta02.mail.mel.aone.net.au@piii> for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:41:15 +1100 From: "John Bonnett" To: Subject: Booting FreeBSD from Win2K boot manager Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:09:44 +0930 Message-ID: <000f01c02940$cbd4f1b0$26f137cb@piii> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to use the Windows 2000 boot manager to boot FreeBSD 4.1 among other things. I have read "How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?" and Win2K seems similar enough in its booting that the same thing as for FreeBSD 3 should work. I am not completely clear on what I have to do. Firstly, when I install BSD what do I say when it asks about using the BSD boot manager? I have actually already installed and I answered "no boot manager" as I intended to use Win2K's. FreeBSD is on the start of my second hard drive with Win2K and Win98 on the first. The second thing is, do I just copy /boot/boot0 to c:\bootsect.bsd after installing as above? I did set this sort of thing up on one of my previous machines with NT4 and RH5.2 but it seems FreeBSD's boot arrangements are a little more complicated since version 3. Is this what I should do? 1. Install the FreeBSD boot manager in the MBR. Can I do this without completely reinstalling? 2. Boot into FreeBSD and copy /boot/boot0 to c:\bootsect.bsd 3. Edit my boot.ini to include the entry for FreeBSD (I have done this before) 4. Try booting to FreeBSD via the Win2k boot manager which I get to via the FreeBSD one. 5. Assuming 4. works OK I should be able to boot to DOS and use FDISK /MBR to remove the FreeBSD boot manager from the MBR 6. I can then get to everything from the Win2K boot menu. I just want to be fairly sure I won't cripple my system. I need to do work in Win2k while I am getting familiar with FreeBSD! John Bonnett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message