Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:40:35 -0500 From: "Jonel Rienton" <jmr@freebsduser.org> To: "John Bonnett" <jbonnett@camtech.net.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from Win2K boot manager Message-ID: <00ff01c02951$ae09c6e0$17161d0a@jonelrienton.org> References: <000f01c02940$cbd4f1b0$26f137cb@piii>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 save yourself all the headaches, just use FreeBSD's booteasy(bootloader) Jonel Rienton http://qmail.freebsduser.org sent by qmail-1.03 on a FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE - ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bonnett" <jbonnett@camtech.net.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 6:39 AM Subject: Booting FreeBSD from Win2K boot manager | 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBOdNKUaQ0pAI9Fl/WEQI3swCdE6M0xGmF0Snhrpp3J1C3EzF2Xj8AoONI wMMaSjb+EXL3bAfx3gWsQfg4 =76CV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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