Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:52:00 -0500 From: dpoland@execpc.com To: jfb@visi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k Message-ID: <200008071852.NAA13557@mailgw00.execpc.com>
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> 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 > This may not help you, but I gave up and bought PartitionMagic. It comes with BootMagic that replaces both WinNT/FBSD boot managers and allows multi-os booting. One reason I choose this was because I failed to create a / partion for FBSD that was under 1024 cylinder barrier. I had to re-partition my HD and didn't want to re-install Win2k and all the junk that goes along with it. My partion scheme turned out to be: FAT16: 50MB - BootMagic needs a DOS partion to store it's stuff UFS: 50MB - / partition for FBSD 4.0 NTFS: 8GB - just barely enough room ;) UFS: 3GB - /usr /var /swap for FBSD HTH Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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