Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 00:16:46 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Chris Landauer <cal@rushe.aero.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kbstew99@hotmail.com Subject: Re: dual boot with 4.5 and windows 2000 pro - how? Message-ID: <3C7DE76E.9080904@owt.com> References: <200202280736.g1S7aeL07180@rushe.aero.org>
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Chris Landauer wrote: > hihi, all - > > > i asked how to set up a w2k machine with dual boot for freebsd > 4.5, and i got an answer > > >> If you want to share files with W2K, you need a fat32 partition somewhere. >> You can read NTFS but not write to it. >> > >> As far as booting them, all you have to do is copy /boot/boot1 >> to your "c" drive and add it to the boot.ini. >> > > (1) all partitions on the windows side are already fat32, not ntfs > (this is not what the problem is) There is no security in FAT32. > > (2) i have not found a system to boot on the machine that CAN copy > anything to the MBr (master boot record) or from /boot/boot1 > > under w2k it says ``don't do that - it didn't work'' > > under freebsd boot disks it says it has done it, and it has not > > this is exactly the problem - how to tell w2k to change the MBR, > or what programs can do the appropriate change externally There is a hidden file on your c-drive called boot.ini and you have to do an "attrib boot.ini" to see it. You have to alter the permissions, edit, and set it back to what it was. My boot.ini look like [boot loader] timeout=5 default=c:\bootsect.bsd [operating systems] c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(3)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect It is set to boot FreeBSD 4.5. To use boot1, you have to have your / file system on the same HD as your c-drive. The file bootsect.bsd was /boot/boot1 from the bsd fs. Having your system on 2 HDs on separate contollers improves somethings like build worlds. I have 3 active HDs for buildworld speed. Your bios and the active partition on the HD tells the computer which system to boot. Kent > > the worst case is to take the hard drives out of the current box, > mount them physically in some other freebsd system on some other > box, and write on them from there - i know that that would work, > but i would prefer to avoid that if possible > > ``and add it to the boot.ini.'' - i do not know what this clause > means, neither the ``it'' that is referenced nor what it is that > needs to be added to file ``boot.ini'' (which i know is a windows > file of some sort) > > more soon, cal -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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