From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 3 0:26:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8B537B507 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 00:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1120.bossig.com [208.26.241.120]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.6) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 00:35:13 -0800 Message-ID: <38BF772F.6A86595F@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 00:26:23 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Alex , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rebooting to a different OS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Annelise Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Alex wrote: > > > > > > > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Alex" > > > > Be sure to reply to that address. > > > > > > > > I have FreeBSD/Win NT dual boot machine. If > > > > FreeBSD is up on my machine, is there a way to > > > > remotely connect to it, and restart it with > > > > WinNT (and vice versa). > > > > > > > The only boot manager that I know of that can do this is > > > System Commander, which needs a dos partition in which to keep > > > its files. It creates, when it boots, a file called > > > syscmndr.sys, in C:\. If the System Commander is set up to > > > boot the last operating system loaded by default, you can > > > copy this file (when FreeBSD is loaded) to syscmndr.bsd, and > > > when nt is loaded, to syscmndr.nt. Then you copy whichever > > > one you want to syscmndr.sys, and reboot. > > > > > > This assumes you can log in to either system and get write > > > access to the dos drive containing syscmdr.sys and so forth. > > > > You can telnet to the machine. The question is if you have write > > privalege's from FreeBSD. You could have a script and batch file that > > toggles the c:\boot.ini as administrator. > > > > Kent > > I think that would work too; this assumes you're using the nt > boot manager. I couldn't figure out how to make it work, perhaps > because I was working with two drives. When you have NT on the machine, the NT loader can be easier. You bring up the system applet from the control panel. It is one of the advanced options. I would setup nt to boot and then grab the boot.ini. Then setup FreeBSD to boot and grab that version. This way you only grab a working version and don't have to modify it yourself. The file has been attrib'ed to be hidden, and system. You unattrib it, copy the one you want to boot and re-attrib it. I'm just not sure how to remote boot the NT. There used to be remote administration utilities that would do that. FreeBSD is no problem because you just tell the system to reboot as root. There were a number of system and kernel builds that were done from a telnet window on this W2K machine that way. The boot.ini is a text file and looks like boot.ini Line: 0 of 8 M HS 2/15/2000 6:59p [boot loader] ? timeout=30 ¦ default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(3)\WINTW5 ¦ [operating systems] ¦ multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(3)\WINTW5="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional¦ multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINT4W="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00¦ multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINT4W="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00¦ C:\="Microsoft Windows 98" ¦ ¦ The default is the system that is going to be booted. The [oper...tems] are the choices. Windows98 is really on my "D" drive. I only have FreeBSD on dedicated systems. The "C" drive on my NT machines is dedicated as an intermediate for sharing information and no OS is located on that partition. NT 4 and W2K understand Fat but Win98 doesn't understand NTFS. Large partitions mess up legacy DOS programs and so I have one 2GB FAT16 partition. The arrangement will probably change real soon now. I just haven't got around to it. I made a program run today that I've been working on converting from a Cray and once I finish testing it I won't need a machine with DEC Visual Fortran on it at this point. I do want to make it work on FreeBSD and this would be handy. Kent > > Annelise -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message