From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 25 11:53:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE0C37B8A8 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:53:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA82844; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:53:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200003251953.OAA82844@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:53:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Michael Sims Subject: RE: dual-boot to second drive Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Mar-00 Michael Sims wrote: > > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > >> On 25-Mar-00 Michael Sims wrote: >> > >> > I have two physical IDE drives, primary master C: with Win98, and primary >> > slave with (I hope) a successful installation of FreeBSD 3.4 on it from >> > CD-ROM. I say "I hope" because I don't have any way to boot into it >> > except by booting the 3.4 CD-ROM, which starts the installation process, >> > or by booting from the kernel and mfsroot floppies I made, which also >> > start the installation process. >> > >> > Now, I believe I need a boot manager at the beginning of the C: to query >> > me whether I want to boot into Windows or FreeBSD. However, _The Complete >> > FreeBSD_ sure doesn't seem to discuss this particular situation, at all. >> > What is the best way of doing this without running any significant risk of >> > devastating the C:? >> >> Boot up into the installation. Don't reinstall FreeBSD, but instead go to >> Configure -> Fdisk -> wd0 -> type 'Q' to exit that screen -> BootMgr should >> be selected, so just hit Enter, and that should do the trick. If you want >> a nicer looking boot manager, go into Windows 98, pop in the FreeBSD CD, and >> look in the tools/ subdirectory for osbsbeta.exe. (Don't worry, it says beta, >> but I've never had any problems with it). Make a bootable floppy, then copy >> osbsbeta.exe over onto the floppy. Pop up a DOS window and run osbsbeta while >> on A: to extract it. It contains a README, and you can just boot your system >> off the floppy to install it. Be sure and save a copy of your current MBR when >> doing this so that in case something does happen to break for some weird reason, >> you can restore your working setup. That is detailed in the README, IIRC. > > This doesn't work for what I want to do. OS-BS will let me dual-boot to > any OS's that have partitions on the primary hard disk - but that disk is > 100% Win98. Every example I've seen assumes that there are multiple > different OS partitions on a single hard disk, and the second disk, if > any, is only used to provide some more space for OS whatever. This page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multi-os/ch3.html > > covers *that* situation fairly well. What I'm looking for is any way to > boot to an OS that does NOT have a partition on the primary master hard > disk in the system? boot0 (the BootMgr option in sysinstall) can do this. You use F5 to choose Disk 2 in it to boot off another disk. To use that, follow my first set of instructions. > -- Michael Sims -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message