From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 8: 8:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mwvcaa.org (server37.aitcom.net [208.234.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320CE37B401 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dvbsd.mwvcaa.int (216-210-225-92.atgi.net [216.210.225.92]) by mwvcaa.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA23470; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:07:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:07:07 -0700 From: David Varieur To: "Eric" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TRIPLE BOOT--fbsd/w98/w2k Message-Id: <20020620080707.18c12e6d.davar@mwvcaa.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:43:36 -0800 "Eric" wrote: > Hi, > > I currently have FBSd and W2K living in harmony. I am not sure which boot > loader I am currently using, but it is managing fine. I now want to add a > new partition in the beginning of my disk and install windows 98. however, > i am afraid i am going to wipe out freebsd--i mean make it unbootable. i am > using partition magic to make the new partition in the first 500mb of my > first hard drive. > > searching the archives, i see some nice tricks from recovering from mistakes > in this kind of procedure. however, I want to do it right from the > beginning. so i am inquiring now before i attempt the procedure. > > what is the proper way to add w98 to this os orgy? do i need to make a boot > disk floppy to make sure that, if all else fails, at least the floppy can > still boot my fbsd os? If I do indeed need to make a boot floppy, do I just > use the image at > , or > do I need to do something different? > > (ps--i also have boot magic, if that would make things easier) > (pps--fbsd 4.4 release) > Once the partitions are set up I've had excellent success with GRUB. /usr/ports/grub http://www.gnu.org/software/grub Read the documentation at the web site a couple of times, create a GRUB boot disk, and you can recover from pretty much any Microsoft related MBR hosejobs. Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message