From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 15:50:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom3-079.telepath.com [216.14.3.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9F0837BB13 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 15:50:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 84028 invoked by uid 100); 7 Aug 2000 22:49:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14735.15622.348683.912212@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:49:42 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:58:09 -0400 > From: Garance A Drosihn > Subject: > At 1:52 PM -0500 8/7/00, dpoland@execpc.com wrote: > >This may not help you, but I gave up and bought PartitionMagic. > Another option is PowerBoot from > http://www.blueskyinnovations.com/pboot.html You might also want to look at GRUB (which recently showed up in the ports collection). It's the most flexible multiboot system I've used, and supports the Hurd, Linux, and *BSD directly. It uses a technic called chain-loading for "Unsupported" OS's - which I've used to Load W9x and BeOS. I thought I saw a note about it working with WNT in the docs, but can't seem to find it again. It's requirements are that you have a file system it understands (BSD, and FAT both work, there are probably others) to store the second-stage loader and configuration file on.