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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 17:39:21 -0400
From: Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Using the NT Boot Manager with FreeBSD
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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


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