From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 6 5:44: 6 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 6CCF837B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 05:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDC443E4A for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 05:44:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: from iaces.com (ptroot.iaces.com [204.147.87.124]) by iaces.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB6DhvEj063110; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 07:44:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Message-ID: <3DF0A99D.5050401@iaces.com> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 07:43:57 -0600 From: Paul Root User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Radzinschi Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting using NT boot loader References: <20021205201738.B396-100000@radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <20021205201738.B396-100000@radzinschi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message