From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 8:43:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk (pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.80.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4207637B419 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:42:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 160 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2002 15:42:49 -0000 Received: from spatula.home (HELO cream.org) (192.168.0.4) by myriad.home with SMTP; 24 Mar 2002 15:42:49 -0000 Message-ID: <3C9DF439.3050305@cream.org> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:43:53 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Fl=FCgel?= Cc: Dillion Klein , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS w/ FreeBSD dual boot References: <002301c1d326$64a30db0$594bfea9@bender> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Flügel wrote: > >Do not install the freeBSD BootManager though! When prompted just select do >not install. > >Create partitions inside your freebsd slice and finish installation. > >Next time you boot your system FreeBSD will start automatically because the >FreeBSD slice is marked active. (So do not worry no win2k Data is lost. > >go to the /boot directory and copy the file boot1 onto a disk (Select boot1 >and not boot0 !!!). Start fdisk with the option -a to set the active >partition to the win2k partition. > >Boot win2k rename boot1 to Bootsect.bsd and copy the file to c:\ then edit >the file boot.ini. (It is a write-protected and hidden file) >It holds the setings for the Win2k Bootmanager. >Add the line C:\Bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" and you are finished. > >Next Time you start your system you can choose between starting FreeBSD and >Win2k > That's an interesting method of dual-booting Christian, I presume this uses the NT Loader to select between the different OS's. I can report, however, that I had no problem using FreeBSD's boot manager to select between Win2K and FreeBSD. Perhaps this is easier for a new user? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message