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To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k
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> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:52:00PM -0500, dpoland@execpc.com wrote:
> > > 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
>
> :-O The one that came with PM3 (the OS/2 boot manager) only needs
4MB.
>
Consider the remaining 46MB "wiggle room" :)



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