Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:59:49 +0100 From: "Andy [Tecc Nops]" <andy@tecc.co.uk> To: "Odhiambo Washington" <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: "FBSD-Q" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: dual boot pain Message-ID: <NDBBKOKIGKLFGGPFHCGBGEKGDDAA.andy@tecc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010611172144.C2630@everest.wananchi.com>
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> Did you say "YES" to install the boot manager when you were installing > FreeBSD? > > Install Winblows, then Install FreeBSD and accept to install the boot > manager. That has always worked for me, regardless of the version of > Winblows ;-) > > -Wash I said "NO" to install the FreeBSD boot manager as I wanted to use the NTLdr but the FreeBSD boot loader still got loaded! I didn't expect that. I normally run FreeBSD boxes in "dangerously dedicated" mode and never had a problem. This is the first time I've ever tried to dual boot. In the end what I did was partition my pri master ide drive into two 6G partitions. Installed W2k onto the first part/ and all was fine. I then installed FreeBSD into the next partition and said NO to install the FreeBSD boot manager. Like I said, it did install it anyway (??). So I then ran the "Repair" utility from the W2k disk and choose the "FIXMBR" option. This brought back the the NTLdr. Then, from FreeBSD cdrom #2 I copied /boot/boot1 to the W2k c:\ and added this to the boot.ini as described in many of the "Kent" postings to -questions. Once I had a nice dual boot machine it wasn't hard to go to single user mode and transfer /usr to the second IDE drive I had installed. I had made the orginal /home partition *very* small cos the freed space from moving /usr to it's own drive then became /home. I had the luxury of both OSs being nice brand new installs so trashing the drives over and over wasn't a prob (good practice, I musta installed both OSs about 15 times at least!) All in all I'm very happy with what I have now but am still unsure as to why I couldn't create a dual boot machine where each OS is on a seperate phyiscal drive as opposed to the final solution of using one drive partitioned and "mounting" the second drive later in the FreeBSD boot process. All's well, that ends well. fyi I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.5 and never had any problems with either installing or running it. Excellent OS. This was my first real problem and, well, obvious why really isn't it, I tried to install a commercial Osystem that I actually paid for, then the troubles began (or should I say 'begin'?) ;) btw, prior to my coming into fBSD at 2.2.5 I was a *commited* M$ user, even deployed a large NT system at Co I worked at. Well, with hindsight...... you get the drift. Thanks to everyone help on this. Regards Ak Mysig: all the above is *my* opinion! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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