Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:00:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Franklin Kingma <franklin@statix.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: w2k and freebsd in 2 disks Message-ID: <20020703210029.GE3016@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3D235A19.3070409@statix.net> References: <7178334969.20020703215813@jet-eisti.com> <3D235A19.3070409@statix.net>
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In the last episode (Jul 03), Franklin Kingma said: > > >C> I have w2k and freebsd in 2 different disks. I want to boot from any. > >C> I searched the mail archives, and I changed the boot.ini in w2k, added > >C> the freebsd entry and I added the bootblock from freebsd to c:\ > > > >C> dd if=/dev/"something" of=/dev/fd0/freebsd.pbr > > > >C> when I power up I see the two options, w2k - freebsd in the w2k loader. > > > >C> If I choose FreeBSD I get "Boot error". What else do I need to do? > >C> Thanks a lot. > > > > cut grub explanation > > i have the same problem, and before I start messing with grub i'd also > like to know what is happening!? i did some searches but with no result :( The problem is most likely that the NT bootloader is not telling the FreeBSD bootblock that it's supposed to boot off disk 2. Grub does this with the root keyword. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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