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From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
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To: Colin Harford <colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca>
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Subject: Re: Booting multiple OS
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Colin Harford wrote:

>On my primary master is my windows XP drive and my secondary master is my
>FreeBSD 4.5-stable drive.
>
>How would I go about setting up a boot manager on either of these two drives
>to be able to choose which OS I wish to load.
>
>This is of course, without having to reformat either of them.
>
Simply type :

fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 <device>

while using FreeBSD. You'll need to do this for both drives, changing 
<device> to ad0 then ad1 (assuming that you have IDE drives).

This can also be done under windows using the bootinst.exe utility and 
boot.bin file, both available from 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.5-RELEASE/tools

All of this information was available from the handbook : 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html 
and the Multi-OS article 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/

Hope this helps.

Andrew.


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