From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 21:19:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA12554 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 21:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixer.visi.com (root@mixer.visi.com [204.73.178.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA12549 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 21:19:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark (195-14.dynamic.visi.com [206.11.195.14]) by mixer.visi.com (8.8.6/8.7.5) with ESMTP id XAA26045 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:19:22 -0500 (CDT) Posted-Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:19:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <340B946B.E55B10DE@chcm.com> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 23:22:03 -0500 From: Mark X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: question regarding multiboot w/ windows NT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In the faq, section 8.7, there is a description of the boot.ini file modified to include FreeBSD and Unix. We are advised to "copy the first sector of your native root FreeBSD or Linux partition into a file in the DOS/NT partition". How exactly is this done? I have a new SCSI controller and drive, and I plan on having one partition for DOS/NT and one for FreeBSD. I will be starting over from scratch with fresh installs, and after installing, bringing over data (zips, etc) from tape. Do you have any suggestions for a preferred procedure? I have heard that putting NT on first would be good, since Windows has a tendency to erase or otherwise mutilate other MBR data...?