Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:28:20 -0600 From: "Wilsons" <wilson@imt.net> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Strip BSD bootsector to DOS file Message-ID: <000001c005b0$75d721b0$0201a8c0@super8>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello, I just purchased and installed FreeBSD 4.0 on my system. I have two SCSI drives and have Windows 2000 Pro, Windows 95, and RedHat 6.2 installed on the first SCSI disk. I installed FreeBSD on the second SCSI disk on a 4 Gb slice. I use the Windows 2000 Pro bootloader to select which OS I will run. I wanted to see how FreeBSD works and how stable it is. None of the OS's can read the FreeBSD slice and partitions. I am unable to figure out how to build a floppy that would boot the installed FreeBSD OS. I have read how to build installation floppies but have found no information on a boot floppy. I used a Linux boot floppy with RedHat to strip off the bootsector to a file that the NT bootloader understands. There must be a way to get the bootsector without using BootEasy. I installed FreeBSD using a STANDARD boot configuration so the FreeBSD bootloader wouldn't overwrite the NT bootloader. Please let me know the procedure to build a boot floppy for FreeBSD. I could then boot into the installed OS and use the DD command to write the bootsector to a file which I could then store on a DOS floppy to transfer to the NT boot partition. Also please let me know if there is a another procedure to get at the bootsector to build a file that the NT bootloader can understand. Thanks for your response Dan Wilson wilson@imt.net [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3103.1000" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000>Hello,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000>I just purchased and installed FreeBSD 4.0 on my system. I have two SCSI drives and have Windows 2000 Pro, Windows 95, and RedHat 6.2 installed on the first SCSI disk. I installed FreeBSD on the second SCSI disk on a 4 Gb slice. I use the Windows 2000 Pro bootloader to select which OS I will run. I wanted to see how FreeBSD works and how stable it is.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000>None of the OS's can read the FreeBSD slice and partitions. I am unable to figure out how to build a floppy that would boot the installed FreeBSD OS. I have read how to build installation floppies but have found no information on a boot floppy. I used a Linux boot floppy with RedHat to strip off the bootsector to a file that the NT bootloader understands.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000>There must be a way to get the bootsector without using BootEasy. I installed FreeBSD using a STANDARD boot configuration so the FreeBSD bootloader wouldn't overwrite the NT bootloader.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000>Please let me know the procedure to build a boot floppy for FreeBSD. I could then boot into the installed OS and use the DD command to write the bootsector to a file which I could then store on a DOS floppy to transfer to the NT boot partition. Also please let me know if there is a another procedure to get at the bootsector to build a file that the NT bootloader can understand.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000>Thanks for your response</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000>Dan Wilson</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=111510405-14082000><A href="mailto:wilson@imt.net">wilson@imt.net</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>help
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