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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:18:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>
To: Paul Root <proot@iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: booting using NT boot loader
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Paul Root wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I used to have this working then I reimaged my
> Windows 2000.
>
> 	Anyway, I have Windows 2000 on the C: (first partition)
> and FreeBSD on the second. VMWare is installed on Win2000. FreeBSD
> is 4.7-Stable of not that long ago.
>
> 	If switch the active partion to be the FreeBSD
> partition it boots fine. However, I get a failure if I
> go thru the NT boot loader.
>
> 	I copied boot1 from /boot to C:\ and called it bootsect.bsd
> I do a sum on FreeBSD and on Win 2000 (cygwin what a lifesaver) and
> They come up the same:
>
> proot@PTROOT /cygdrive/c
> $ sum bootsect.bsd
> 30147     1
>
> proot@PTROOT /cygdrive/c
> $ cat boot.ini
> [boot loader]
> timeout=5
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
> Professional"
> /fastdetect
> C:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD"
> C:\="Microsoft Windows"
>
>
> What am I doing wrong here? I tried copying the file to a peerless
> drive when just booted in FreeBSD and then moving it over with Explorer,
> then I copied it in FreeBSD, gzipped it, copied it over, gunziped it in
> cygwin and used mv in cygwin to rename.
>
> Sorry, I'm not currently on the list, don't have time to read. Any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul.
>
>
>
> --
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Just use bootpart, and run it under windows.  Tell it which partition is
your FreeBSD one, and it will create the appropriate bootsector file (and
entry).

http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

Marco Radzinschi
E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com

Thu Dec  5 20:17:38 EST 2002


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