From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 3:14:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.ldn.wdr.com (gate.ldn.wdr.com [193.82.179.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1F1F15417 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:14:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Clem.Dye@wdr.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gate.ldn.wdr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23635; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:13:15 GMT From: Clem.Dye@wdr.com Received: from inside(192.168.0.1) by gate via smap (V2.0) id xma023600; Thu, 18 Mar 99 11:13:07 GMT Received: from ln4p1129.ldn.swissbank.com (ln4p1129.ldn.swissbank.com [172.16.234.32]) by ln4p1013pos.ldn.swissbank.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00783; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:13:06 GMT Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by ln4p1129.ldn.swissbank.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6/WDR alpha evision: 1.7 $) with SMTP id LAA00857; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:13:04 GMT X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:12:54 +0000 Message-Id: Subject: RE: Re: Multi-Boot MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Clem.Dye@wdr.com, marko@uk.radan.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org, rmarler@tomatoweb.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="BDY.TXT" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="BDY.TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Processed-By: BrianWare hpomsmf V2.3.35, 6 May 1997 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After I posted the message it dawned on me that of course the boot sector won't contain a drive reference - doh! The implications therefore (as I understand it) must be that if the NT bootloader is to be used, it must reside in a small [DOS] bootable partition on the first drive. FreeBSD would then have to be installed on the remainder of the first drive, whilst NT goes on the second drive. A bit of a chore, but not impossible. As I plan to install FreeBSD on a test box first, I can try-out both scenarios and report back. I'm hoping to get around to this within the next couple of weeks. Now, how about the scenario where FreeBSD is installed on the second drive and DOS/NT on the first drive but the FreeBSD bootloader is installed. Can the FreeBSD bootloader be used to boot DOS/NT and FreeBSD, or do the same rules apply as to where FreeBSD must live - ie: somewhere on the first drive? Clem -----Original Message----- From: marko Sent: 18 March 1999 11:03 To: Dye, Clem Cc: marko; rmarler; questions Subject: Re: Multi-Boot Clem.Dye@wdr.com wrote: > > Hmmm. I was planning a similar DOS/NT4.0/NT5.0/FreeBSD 3.1 > installation on my test box, with the idea that FreeBSD be installed > on the second drive in its entirety but still using the NT > bootloader. (An aside: a nice way to see if FAQ is valid for NT5.0, > but I digress.) > > I re-read the FAQ and the example shows how to use the NT bootloader > where FreeBSD is on the same drive. What it doesn't say (as far as I > can tell) is that FreeBSD has to be on the same drive as NT. At > least, that's my understanding. That leaves two questions, in my mind: > > 1) Is it possible to use the NT bootloader to multi-os boot where > FreeBSD isn't on the first drive? > I'm at work so I haven't got the FAQ to hand, but IIRC it does say something about which drive FreeBSD has to be on (I think the word "same" is shown in bold). Bear in mind that whilst NT can be in any partition on any drive it *must* boot from the first primary partition on the first drive. I also remember someone else saying in a previous thread on this subject that FreeBSD had to be on the first disk. To add FreeBSD to the NT boot menu you dd(1) the first sector of the FreeBSD partition to a file on C:\ and if I understand it correctly this sector only contains partition info, it doesn't reference which disk it's on (otherwise you wouldn't be able to move drives around) so NT's boot loader will look for the partition on the first disk. > 2) If the answer to (1) is 'no', is it possible to use the FreeBSD > bootloader to boot DOS/NT etc. in addition to FreeBSD if the FreeBSD > install is allowed to update the boot record on the first drive? > I believe it is possible to use Booteasy. I've never used it myself though. I'd be very interested if it is possible to make NT's boot loader owrk with FreeBSD on another disk as I will be getting a second HD in a couple of weeks and would like to use it exclusively for FreeBSD. Currently I'm planning on having ``/'', ``/var'' and swap on the first HD and ``/usr'' on the second. > Clem > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message