From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 14: 0:37 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 96BD037B417 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D5243E09 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g63L0TTX069873; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:00:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:00:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Franklin Kingma Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: w2k and freebsd in 2 disks Message-ID: <20020703210029.GE3016@dan.emsphone.com> References: <7178334969.20020703215813@jet-eisti.com> <3D235A19.3070409@statix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D235A19.3070409@statix.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 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