Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:42:13 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: jlboss@yahoo.com Cc: Chris Landauer <cal@rushe.aero.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kbstew99@hotmail.com Subject: Re: dual boot with 4.5 and windows 2000 pro - how? Message-ID: <3C7E7A05.9050307@owt.com> References: <200202280736.g1S7aeL07180@rushe.aero.org> <3C7DE76E.9080904@owt.com> <200202281625.g1SGPId26189@oneworld.owt.com>
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Justin L. Boss wrote: > How do you make that bootsect.bsd manually. > If i remember right you do > dd if=/dev/ad0s? of=bootsect.bsd bs=512K count=1 > or > dd if=/dev/ad0s? of=bootsect.bsd bs=1K count=512 > or something like that. If you know let me know. > thanks. I mounted the c-drive and cp'ed it to the c-drive. I also have a cd#2 and you can copy it using the DOS copy command or ftp. You can change the name in the get by doing something like ftp ... bin get /boot/boot1 bootsect.bsd If you have FreeBSD on an HD other than a ad0, you have to use one of the other options and config it. I used the same drive for simplicity reasons. Kent > > > On Thursday 28 February 2002 02:16 am, Kent Stewart wrote: > >>Chris Landauer wrote: >> > hihi, all - >> > >> > >> > i asked how to set up a w2k machine with dual boot for freebsd >> > 4.5, and i got an answer >> > >> >> If you want to share files with W2K, you need a fat32 partition >> >>somewhere. >> >> >> You can read NTFS but not write to it. >> >> >> >> >> >> As far as booting them, all you have to do is copy /boot/boot1 >> >> to your "c" drive and add it to the boot.ini. >> > >> > (1) all partitions on the windows side are already fat32, not ntfs >> > (this is not what the problem is) >> >>There is no security in FAT32. >> >> > (2) i have not found a system to boot on the machine that CAN copy >> > anything to the MBr (master boot record) or from /boot/boot1 >> > >> > under w2k it says ``don't do that - it didn't work'' >> > >> > under freebsd boot disks it says it has done it, and it has not >> > >> > this is exactly the problem - how to tell w2k to change the MBR, >> > or what programs can do the appropriate change externally >> >>There is a hidden file on your c-drive called boot.ini and you have to >>do an "attrib boot.ini" to see it. You have to alter the permissions, >>edit, and set it back to what it was. My boot.ini look like >> >>[boot loader] >>timeout=5 >>default=c:\bootsect.bsd >>[operating systems] >>c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" >>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP >>Professional" /fastdetect >>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(3)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 >>Professional" /fastdetect >> >>It is set to boot FreeBSD 4.5. To use boot1, you have to have your / >>file system on the same HD as your c-drive. The file bootsect.bsd was >>/boot/boot1 from the bsd fs. Having your system on 2 HDs on separate >>contollers improves somethings like build worlds. I have 3 active HDs >>for buildworld speed. >> >>Your bios and the active partition on the HD tells the computer which >>system to boot. >> >>Kent >> >> > the worst case is to take the hard drives out of the current box, >> > mount them physically in some other freebsd system on some other >> > box, and write on them from there - i know that that would work, >> > but i would prefer to avoid that if possible >> > >> > ``and add it to the boot.ini.'' - i do not know what this clause >> > means, neither the ``it'' that is referenced nor what it is that >> > needs to be added to file ``boot.ini'' (which i know is a windows >> > file of some sort) >> > >> > more soon, cal >> > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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