From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 15:16:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web10305.mail.yahoo.com (web10305.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33E7737B639 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 15:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz) Message-ID: <20010517221647.4756.qmail@web10305.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.165.156.80] by web10305.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 17 May 2001 15:16:47 PDT Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:16:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Graham Guttocks Subject: Re: dual-boot with NT OS loader question To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3B042417.E1E0A78E@urx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kent Stewart wrote: > When you add FreeBSD, you probably can just newfs the Linux partition as > a FreeBSD filesystem and leave the mbr alone. Then you add /boot/boot1 > as bootsect.bsd to your "c" drive. The FreeBSD slice has to be a primary > partition in NT terminology. I think Linux can install to an extended > partition. You can also delete the Linux partition and make it FreeBSD > at that point. > > Next, you replace your entry in boot.ini with something like > c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" > > It works like a charm. Indeed it did, thanks mate! Cheers, Graham __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message