From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 6 19:45: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.38]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA3A3F0E for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 19:45:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlanta ([12.78.244.115]) by mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07.07 118-134) with ESMTP id <20000207034545.FTVT2478@atlanta>; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 03:45:45 +0000 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000206223818.05e1d160@mail.threespace.com> X-Sender: tech_info@mail.threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 22:46:34 -0500 To: "Adam" From: Technical Information Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot Cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It sounds like you need a boot manager of some sort. FreeBSD's own BootEasy should be able to handle the task. Last time I used it, it automatically detected the partitions that were available, so configuring it was unnecessary. I'll assume this is still the case. If BootEasy is installed in the boot sector of the primary hard drive, you should get the prompts to press a function key to boot the selected OS. Alternatively, I think you can use NT's bootloader to boot FreeBSD. Making the correct changes to the C:/BOOT.INI file should allow you to add an entry for your FreeBSD partition. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A SYSTEM FILE AND THAT YOU EDIT IT AT YOUR OWN RISK! ANY MISTAKES MAY RENDER YOUR COMPUTER UNBOOTABLE! (Is that a word?) --Chip Morton At 06:24 PM 2/6/00 , Adam wrote: >Hello, > >I have installed FreeBSD on to a second HD in a machine, but when I reboot I >go straight into my other Operating system installed (winNT). I think I >have to set the second hard drive in the machine to be bootable. > > >How would I go about doing this? > > >Also when I installed FreeBSD on the second HD, did the FreeBSD boot manager >know if any other operating systems where installed on the other hard >drives? > >Thanks > >Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message