From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 14 11:37:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.global.net.uk (sand2.global.net.uk [194.126.80.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A8915331 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:37:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from p3fs09a06.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.217.64] helo=marder-1.) by sand2.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 10tbc5-0001nq-00; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:37:41 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id TAA00447; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:35:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:35:19 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Anne-Sophie Hombert Cc: Clem.Dye@wdr.com, Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More about Bootpart ... Message-ID: <19990614193519.E254@marder-1> References: <000e01beb692$f3e71240$01010101@ash> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <000e01beb692$f3e71240$01010101@ash>; from Anne-Sophie Hombert on Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 08:23:08PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 08:23:08PM +0200, Anne-Sophie Hombert wrote: > Clem, > > > Are you saying that bootpart will work with FreeBSD? > Yes, it lists all my partitions, then I just entered the partition ID of > FreeBSD and I was done (bootpart 11 bootsect.bsd FreeBSD). The only thing > you have to watch for is that bootpart creates the bootfile in the directory > it resides in. So bootpart creates a boot file for each OS? This must be the reason it can boot OSs on the second disk. BOOTSECT.BSD (or whatever you call it) is a copy of the boot sector of the FreeBSD partition and as such contains no info about the *disk* it is on, therefore the NT loader looks for it on the first disk (and fails when it doesn't find it. > Since I had it in c:\temp, it created the file in c:\temp, so > I had to afterwards move the file and edit boot.ini to make sure it was not > going to be wiped out by a zelous cleaning of the temp dir ... > > If you have any more question, feel free to ask. > > I will drop a message to the author of bootpart to explain him about FreeBSD > ;-) I figured out if it worked with Linux, it had to work with FreeBSD ... > > Anne > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message