From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 20: 6:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7D637B65D for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:06:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (hpcuhe.cup.hp.com [15.0.80.203]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1308CA for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:06:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (klui@localhost) by hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id UAA22650 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:06:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:06:30 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Lui To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Getting NTLDR to work with FreeBSD 4.2 on another drive Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone gotten the NT loader to work with FreeBSD 4.2 when FBSD is on another drive than the one NT is installed on? I saw a page saying if one wishes to boot to FreeBSD residing on another disk than NT, one should copy /boot/boot0 rather than /boot/boot1 over to the NT partition. But when I do that, I cannot boot and the size of boot0 for 4.2 is 1024 bytes unlike 3.2, which was 512 bytes. My system is an HP Kayak XU with NT on a SCSI disk connected to an Adaptec AIC-7880. The FreeBSD resides on an IDE drive connected to the only IDE connector of the machine as slave. The CD-ROM was already installed as master. I currently have FreeBSD 3.2 installed on another partition with NT and I can boot to it from NT's NTLDR. When I get to easyboot, I can interrupt it and specify 1:wd(0,a)/boot/loader and it will find my 4.2 partition and boot. When I am finally in 4.2 while booted by this method, boot0cfg shows /dev/ad1, /dev/ad1s1 and /dev/ad1a as "unknown or incompatible boot code." Seeing how I accessed my IDE drive as wd above leads me to believe I'm still relying on FreeBSD 3.x somehow to boot my 4.2 drive. Any insights? Ken -- Ken Lui 3000 Hanover Street klui@cup.hp.com Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA Hewlett-Packard Company invent 1.650.236.5364 FAX 1.650.857.2085 Views within may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message