Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 10:38:48 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: Anne-Sophie Hombert <as_hombert@ibm.net> Cc: "FreeBSD (Questions)" <Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD with Win NT Message-ID: <19990613103848.C255@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <000101beb572$c2d91b60$01010101@ash>; from Anne-Sophie Hombert on Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 10:00:11AM %2B0200 References: <000101beb572$c2d91b60$01010101@ash>
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On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 10:00:11AM +0200, Anne-Sophie Hombert wrote:
> A real newbie question ...
>
> I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.8. Since I have also NT running on the system,
> I did not to install booteasy nor modify the MBR. For the moment I boot
> FreeBSD from the install disk, using "wd(1,a) kernel" at the boot prompt.
>
> The system configuration is as follows (HP vectra, PII 450 Mhz, 128 Mb RAM):
> - primary HDD (10Gb) entirely dedicated to NT, on the first controller as
> master
> - secondary HDD with 2 partitions (4Gb), first controller, slave: a very
> small DOS partition(7 Mb), just enough to allow HP power management utility
> to recognize the drive and put it to sleep when it's not used and the rest
> (so about 4Gb) dedicated to FreeBSD.
>
> I have tried to apply the method in the FAQ to boot via NT loader, but it
> does not work.
>
That's because the NT boot mangler can only boot an OS that resides
on the first HD (it is mentioned in the FAQ).
> Now the question : do I have any other options than the boot floppy to load
> FreeBSD on a system with Win NT installed ?
>
If you've got (or can get) Partiton Magic or similar what you can
do is to shrink the NT partition to create enough space (~32MB +
swap) to install / and swap on the first HD and leave everthing
else (/usr /var /home etc.) on the second disk.
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Anne
>
>
>
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