From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 5 18: 8:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354C037B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:08:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (www.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AEF243EDC for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:08:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9971B19EC; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:08:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 21:08:24 -0500 X-Epoch: 1039140504 X-Sasl-enc: BQmCD+8QSRsEQyO+IbCE4w Received: from sparky (dialup-63.214.215.190.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [63.214.215.190]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD760135A1; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:08:21 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Radzinschi , Paul Root Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting using NT boot loader References: <20021205201738.B396-100000@radzinschi.com> Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed From: Jud Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 21:09:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20021205201738.B396-100000@radzinschi.com> User-Agent: Opera7.0/Win32 M2 BETA1 build 2547 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 Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:18:44 -0500 (EST), Marco Radzinschi wrote: > 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 [snip] >> $ 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. [snip] > 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 Never used bootpart. Looks interesting. Do you have a Win9x/ME installation on this computer? If not, try removing the C:\="Microsoft Windows" line from boot.ini. Couple other questions: (1) Is the Win2K partition active? (2) Are Win2K and FreeBSD installed to the same drive? If not, what's the config? -- Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message