From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 14:39:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mcp.csh.rit.edu (mcp.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FEB237B996 for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Wed, 10 May 2000 14:39:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@mail.csh.rit.edu) Received: from fury.csh.rit.edu (fury.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.5]) by mcp.csh.rit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B852148 for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Wed, 10 May 2000 17:39:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jon@localhost) by fury.csh.rit.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id RAA12923 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 May 2000 17:39:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 17:39:21 -0400 From: Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using the NT Boot Manager with FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000510173921.B11345@csh.rit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20000510213209.38485.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.14i In-Reply-To: <20000510213209.38485.qmail@hotmail.com>; from shameek_basu@hotmail.com on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 02:32:09PM -0700 X-Operating-System: SunOS 5.7 (sun4u) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 02:32:09PM -0700, Shameek Basu wrote: > Does anyone have a clue how to boot into FreeBSD 4.0 using W2k > loader when FreeBSD is on a different disk than NT? And whether I > need to install a boot record on the MBR of the disk that FreeBSD > resides on. Will choosing to write a boot record during > installation overwrite the MBR of the disk that FreeBSD is being > installed on or will it overwrite the MBR of the first disk that > the BIOS reads at boot time? I've always had good luck with BootPart for these kinds of thing: http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm It has yet to fail me. =) -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message