From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 21:54:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB46A37B423 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 21:54:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from kurley (matey.apana.org.au [203.3.126.134]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA56507; Sat, 5 May 2001 14:53:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <022901c0d51e$c2510a40$8683fea9@kurley> From: "Doug Young" To: "Andrew Hesford" , "TOad Stool" Cc: References: <20010504185700.77658.qmail@web9306.mail.yahoo.com> <20010504153246.B19951@cec.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: having unix and windows on differint hard drives Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 14:49:20 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The way I handle this is with one of those $20 removable hard drive brackets. Put one hard drive in that & install the second hard drive normally. When the little switch is turned off, the system boots from the alternative drive. This avoids any messing around with typically temperamental bootmanagers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hesford" To: "TOad Stool" Cc: Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 6:32 AM Subject: Re: having unix and windows on differint hard drives > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:57:00AM -0700, TOad Stool wrote: > > I need to know how to share freebsd and windows on > > seperate disks. And still boot both seperatly. > > > > I have an i430 mother board, made 1995 > > IDE interface > > intel i386 > > I don,t know if this info will help, but just being > > safe. > > Windows has always handled this in typical Microsoft broken fashion. In > order to boot Windows without special third-party software, you NEED to > keep Windows on the first hard disk. Install the FreeBSD boot loader on > the first disk; this will give you a menu from which you can choose > Windows or FreeBSD. > > NT can boot from any disk, but it needs some files on the active primary > MSDOS or NTFS filesystem on the first disk... This operating system > might give you some trouble. > > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message