From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 18 22:13:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au (sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au [24.192.3.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1461237BBAE for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from taras@BuggerIT.com.au) Received: from homer (CPE-144-132-212-32.nsw.bigpond.net.au [144.132.212.32]) by sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA27944 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:31:24 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200006182331.JAA27944@sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au> From: "Taras M. Dowhaluk" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:31:13 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: REVISED: Active partition problems with FreeBSD 4.0/NT dual-boot In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry for the late post on this subject, just getting thru some backlog. If someone has already mentioned boot0cfg then pls ignore, otherwise I found boot0cfg a very useful tool to create my disk1 boot sector. Mind you this is on 3.2, unsure of 4.0. From a previous post: BOOT FREEBSD FROM NTLDR spindle 0: ptn 1: FAT drive C:, NTLDR, BOOT.INI. : ptn 2: NTFS spindle 1: ptn 1: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, da1s1a, da1s1b : ptn 2: NTFS When I installed FreeBSD I chose not to alter the MBR. My BOOT.INI for bsd reads: C:\BOOTSECT.BSD="FreeBSD 3.2" I created BOOTSECT.BSD thus: * ensure you have a backup of MBR and PBS from both disks. I used the NTRESKIT DISKSAVE when booted from a DOS floppy. Good idea if you have FAT/NTFS to have a DOS boot floppy with DISKSAVE, NTFSDOS etc, and a copy of all the various boot sectors. * boot into FreeBSD by whatever means. * as root, boot0cfg -v -B -d 0x81 -o noupdate,setdrv -f /tmp/BOOTSECT.BSD -t 1 da1 I ran this twice to get a copy of the new MBR1 into /tmp/BOOTSECT.BSD * copy /tmp/BOOTSECT.BSD to C:\BOOTSECT.BSD by whatever means. * reboot. regards, taras To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message