Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 07:47:40 +0200 (CEST) From: "Peter Ulrich (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: <smnoldelinux@mediaone.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dual booting Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106040736490.3154-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010603153547.U85038-100000@bsd.smnolde.com>
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Scott Nolde wrote: > I have a multi-boot system and wish to migrate my FreeBSD OS from ad1s3 to > ad0s1. Doing this wouldn't be a big deal since the actual migration is > relatively easy. > > My problem is I have WinME installed on ad1s1 which lilo will boot to > easily. Lilo has a feature called map-drive which will fake the BIOS into > thinking WinME is on the primary drive when, in fact, it's not. > > Does the FreeBSD bootloader have a similar configuration feature? Or > should I migrate my WinME partition over to the primary hard drive also? Just in case there will not be a better answer: I solved my migration problems by using GNU's grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) /usr/ports/sysutils/grub You build it on your FreeBSD-partition and from there you may copy it into the MBR or on a floppy. *-------------------------------------------------* | www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | | | | Wuppertal - Germany | *-------------------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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