From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 22:44:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261FB37B400 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:44:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id AA30F07400FC; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:44:00 -0800 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:44:58 +0000 From: Chip Wiegand To: Nick Lozinsky Cc: dillionklein@hotpop.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, andrew@cream.org Subject: Re: NTFS w/ FreeBSD dual boot Message-Id: <20020326224458.3fb45446.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <3C9FBAE3.3E40A0A7@wi.rr.com> References: <3C9FBAE3.3E40A0A7@wi.rr.com> Organization: Alternative Operating Systems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:03:47 -0600 Nick Lozinsky 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. > > Hi there, > > Either way you do it, its works. If you have a Win2k partition and > want to install FreeBSD on the same drive or not, FreeBSD bootloader > will work fine, if you want to use the Win2k bootloader, then you'll > have to copy the /boot/boot1 image to your root c:\ drive and edit the > boot.ini file to include something like so: > > c:\boot1="FreeBSD" > > and then you'll be able to use the Win2k bootloader. I have FreeBSD and NT4 dual-boot and used the FreeBSD boot manager, and it works fine. Only thing I need to do now is change the two ?? in the boot menu to read NT. Any idea how? -- Chip W chip@wiegand.org www.wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message