From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 4 1:51:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A0237B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boris.eastsite.nl (boris.eastsite.nl [194.178.62.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8674A43E31 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from franklin@statix.net) Received: from statix.net (ah-c-2241.mxs.adsl.euronet.nl [212.129.162.65]) by boris.eastsite.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09125; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:51:09 +0200 Message-ID: <3D240DE7.10501@statix.net> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:57:11 +0200 From: Franklin Kingma User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jud Subject: Re: w2k and freebsd in 2 disks References: <1SRKFFD2V7IERB9GENLZTZW0GFYU.3d2395dd@sparky> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > cut some bootloader questions > > From the FreeBSD web site FAQ bootloader section at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT- > BOOTLOADER - > > If FreeBSD is installed on the same disk as the NT boot partition simply > copy /boot/boot1 to C:\BOOTSECT.BSD However, if FreeBSD is > installed on a different disk /boot/boot1 will not work, / boot/boot0 is > needed. > > Warning: DO NOT SIMPLY COPY /boot/boot0 INSTEAD OF > /boot/boot1, YOU WILL OVERWRITE YOUR PARTITION TABLE AND > RENDER YOUR COMPUTER UN-BOOTABLE! > > /boot/boot0 needs to be installed using sysinstall by selecting the > FreeBSD boot manager on the screen which asks if you wish to use a > boot manager. This is because /boot/boot0 has the partition table area > filled with NULL characters but sysinstall copies the partition table before > copying /boot/ boot0 to the MBR. > > When the FreeBSD boot manager runs it records the last OS booted by > setting the active flag on the partition table entry for that OS and then > writes the whole 512-bytes of itself back to the MBR so if you just copy > /boot/boot0 to C:\BOOTSECT.BSD then it writes an empty partition > table, with the active flag set on one entry, to the MBR. k, i read that... i shouldnt copy boot0 but run sysinstall instead... so i run sysinstall and then what? should i install the freebsd bootloader to my XP disk? and do i still have to add the line to boot.ini and what do i copy to the xp disk? cheers, franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message