Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:09:44 +0930 From: "John Bonnett" <jbonnett@camtech.net.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Booting FreeBSD from Win2K boot manager Message-ID: <000f01c02940$cbd4f1b0$26f137cb@piii>
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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
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