From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 22 23:32:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from level3.dynacom.net (level3.dynacom.net [206.107.213.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57F0A37B4EC for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:32:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: (qmail 22397 invoked by uid 0); 23 Feb 2001 08:33:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO urx.com) (206.159.132.160) by mail.urx.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2001 08:33:02 -0000 Message-ID: <3A961226.5E56E7FF@urx.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:32:54 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin McKnight Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Dual-Booting win2k and FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Justin McKnight wrote: > > i need help dual booting win200 and freebsd4.2. Win200 is already installed > casue i wanted to use its bootmanager for loading each OS. I know win2k and > load openbsd so figure i wont have any trouble dual booting with freebsd. > Now I cant find any documentation on dual booting win2k and freebsd. I need > help! I haven't booted to a different drive. That changes how you do things. I have a 2GB FAT16 and FreeBSD is next. What I did was copy /boot/boot1 to my boot drive as bootsect.bsd and added it to my boot.ini. It works like magic after that. The line I used in boot.ini is c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" You usually have to reset the active partition after you get through installing FreeBSD. You may tell it to leave everything alone but it still tinkers with your boot setup. It wouldn't run otherwise. I have a Win98se startdisk and use fdisk to reset the active partition. Kent > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message