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From: Christine Jaeger <cjag@knfpub.com>
To: Anne-Sophie Hombert <as_hombert@ibm.net>
Subject: RE: Booting FreeBSD with Win NT
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Hi there,

We use a free third-party boot loader called os-bs to boot three partitions
containing NT, win95 and FreeBSD. It works a treat, and is fairly easy to set
up. I always get a laugh that this little piece of freeware can do what a huge
monolithic system such as NT cannot. But then, the dudes who wrote osboot aren't
fussy about what OS's you run ;)

If you have trouble finding it let me know, and I'll chuck my rather old copy
of it on a server for you.

Cheers,
Christine Jaeger.

P.S For anyone wanting to cram as many OS's on a hard drive as possible,
remember that NT boot files need to be located in the first partition. One day
I'll find enough spare cash to simply buy another hard drive.....<g>

On 12-Jun-99 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.
> 
> Now the question : do I have any other options than the boot floppy to load
> FreeBSD on a system with Win NT installed ?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
> 
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Date: 15-Jun-99
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