Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:58:55 -0700 (PDT) From: robb@datatone.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/13341: FAQ 8.7 addition - booting drive 1 from NT loader Message-ID: <19990824055855.0782B1519F@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 13341 >Category: misc >Synopsis: FAQ 8.7 addition - booting drive 1 from NT loader >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 23 23:00:01 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Rob Brady >Release: 3.2-RELEASE >Organization: >Environment: n/a >Description: I have been booting freebsd from my second drive for quite a while now, but I find it annoying having to run through the freebsd boot manager prompt, then the windows NT prompt. To resolve this I created bootd1.bin (from bootd1.asm, a nasm program) which will boot drive 1. So as an addendum to FAQ 8.7 "How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD? I would like to add the fix. >How-To-Repeat: Have a job that requires you to use Windows/NT most of the time. Install Windows/NT on wd0, install FreeBSD on wd1. Install the boot manager (you have to). >Fix: If you are booting FreeBSD from drive 1 you have installed the boot manager on both drives. In order to boot FreeBSD from the NT loader, copy bootd1.bin to your C:\ directory. Do an edit the boot.ini file as described in FAQ 8.7 above, adding instead C:\BOOTD1.BIN="FreeBSD". Now do an fdisk /mbr from DOS to restore your boot sector. When you boot up and choose "FreeBSD" from the prompt disk 1 will boot putting you into the boot manager there. When I have some free time later I will add a utility to modify the boot sector of disk 1 to use the straight boot loader instead of the boot manager. The most up to date versions of these files will be available at www.datatone.com/~robb/bootd1.asm and www.datatone.com/~robb/bootd.bin >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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