From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 3: 4: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC32B37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 03:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B86A243E77 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 03:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from GeneralP.Fault@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 16339 invoked by uid 0); 13 Oct 2002 10:03:56 -0000 Received: from pd95148c9.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO data) (217.81.72.201) by mail.gmx.net (mp004-rz3) with SMTP; 13 Oct 2002 10:03:56 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: wolfgang To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Multiboot questions Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:03:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Organization: planet earth MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210131203.55344.GeneralP.Fault@gmx.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have a computer with 3 OS's on it: win98 on ad0s1, freebsd 4.7 on ad0s3= and=20 linux on ad2s2. ad2 is too big to be handled correctly by the bios, so th= ere=20 is a disk manager installed to the master boot record of ad0. i boot linux via windows' config.sys and loadlin.exe without problems. i = tried=20 to do the same with fbsdboot.exe with freebsd, but that doesnt seem to wo= rk,=20 so i now use a floppy with the uniload boot loader from=20 http://www.simon.org.ua/uniload/ to boot freebsd. each time freebsd has run, the freebsd slice ad0s3 is set active, but fre= ebsd=20 won't boot from it: Error loading OS. 1. can i change that so that the freebsd slice is fully bootable? maybe b= y=20 installing grub to that slice? i would prefer that solution since i could= =20 then use grub also to be able to boot the other OS's. 2. is there a way to boot freebsd from DOS, how exactly would i use=20 fbsdboot.exe? regards, wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message