From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 11:27:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E37C37B52A for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.89.172]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000807182709.NMKN26680.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:27:09 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01402; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:26:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:26:54 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: James Felix Black Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k Message-ID: <20000807192654.D254@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jfb@visi.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:22:46AM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:22:46AM -0500, James Felix Black wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering how best to boot both FreeBSD (4.1) and Windows 2000. > It seems that 2000 interferes with any and all boot managers (go > figure!), and short of booting off of floppy, my BSD system appears to > be unreachable. > > Is booting off of floppy my only recourse? If so, is there a document > that details what I will have to do to create a custom boot floppy? > Someone mentioned (here on -questions I think) a long time ago that the W2K boot manager worked the same way as the NT one and they had NT, W2K, and FreeBSD all booting from the W2K boot menu. I can't find the post anymore (I had kept a copy) but if you look at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN2138 it may help. Also http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multi-os/index.html HTH > Thanks in advance, > (jfb) > > -- > My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, > but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not > forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message