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Date:      Fri, 06 Dec 2002 07:43:57 -0600
From:      Paul Root <proot@iaces.com>
To:        Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: booting using NT boot loader
Message-ID:  <3DF0A99D.5050401@iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021205201738.B396-100000@radzinschi.com>
References:  <20021205201738.B396-100000@radzinschi.com>

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bootpart worked. Thanks!

Paul.

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
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Paul T. Root                    E/Mail: proot@iaces.com
>>600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S		PAG: +1 (877) 693-7155
>>Minneapolis, MN  55413          WRK: +1 (612) 664-3385
>>NIC:    PTR                     FAX: +1 (612) 664-4779
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 

-- 
Paul T. Root                    E/Mail: proot@iaces.com
600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S		PAG: +1 (877) 693-7155
Minneapolis, MN  55413          WRK: +1 (612) 664-3385
NIC:    PTR                     FAX: +1 (612) 664-4779



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