From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 17 05:08:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E904916A401 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:08:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from evs@telod.net) Received: from kohav.telod.net (h-72-245-221-62.chcgilgm.covad.net [72.245.221.62]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0BAE13C46B for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:08:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from evs@telod.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (wall.hm.telod.net [72.245.221.58]) (authenticated bits=0) by kohav.telod.net (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l1H581Ke007224; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:08:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from evs@telod.net) In-Reply-To: <951a4446d5024380850458b8ac336fe6.ceco108@gimail.af.mil> References: <951a4446d5024380850458b8ac336fe6.ceco108@gimail.af.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <133A53BE-4FE5-4953-8C06-F954AF54B8A1@telod.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Edward Shabotinsky Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:08:01 -0600 To: Cecil X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.7, clamav-milter version 0.88.7 on kohav.telod.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:08:09 -0000 Cecil, sorry, what is your question? if you have win2k recognize freebsd ( can u boot it ?), after all you can use win2k boot loader for fbsd booting process but in that case you MUST NOT to override mbr with fbsd installation process. Good luck :-) On Feb 16, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Cecil wrote: > Thanks for all the comments but I must not be doing something > right! Here's outline of the install process. > > 1. Partition a single 40GB harddrive using FDISK and make the > FreeBSD partition Active > 2. Set the second partition as DOS fat ->> install Win2K in the Dos > partition ->> then doing the install I think it formats the DOS > partition to fat32 and overwrites the MBR for FreeBSD > 3. The Win2K come up without giving a choice of OS to boot into ->> > copy boot0 from the FreeBSD disk onto the Win2K C:\bootFBSD and > modify the B boot.ini file ->> I reboot and there is recgnized OS > to be found > > and I have followed these step after that > > > FreeBSD offers a simple boot manager that is placed in the first > sector > of your hard disk. It is called boot0. You can install easily: > > - boot FreeBSD > - allow to write the first sector: > sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 > - install the boot manager > boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0 > - reboot > > Now I am still unable to choose between the operating systems. > > You can also boot from the FreeBSD CD (disc1) and choose "Fixit" -> > "CD/CDROM". In this case you can skip the second step. > > I not getting something right even with book in hand. > > Thanks > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"