From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 19 13:11:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 21.zoomsystems.com (hil-qbu-ppy-vty42.as.wcom.net [209.154.59.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F4E15591 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:11:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jeff@Wagsky.com) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by 21.zoomsystems.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA18519; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 08:10:12 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from Jeff@Wagsky.com) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 08:10:11 +1100 (EST) From: Jeff Kletsky X-Sender: root@21.zoomsystems.com To: Stan Brown Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: Risk of 3.0 -> 3.1 on Multi-Boot machin? In-Reply-To: <19990319182232.4896A14CAB@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a laptop, that Iuse every day at work. It has 3.o (from the CD) > on it, and Win95, WinNT using Booteasy, which then calls the NT boot > manager. > > I also have another laptop runing 3.1 (from the CD). Based upon all the > discussion in this list, I feel that I need to upgrade the 3.0 machine > to 3.1, Howver, I am _very_ concerned about various (little understtood > by me) boot issues, that have been discused here. > > What should I do to upgrade this amchine, with minimal risk of it not > working? While it is not significantly better understood by me, I have good luck running 3.1-STABLE on an HP OmniBook 4100 by using ntldr (with "stock" M$ boot blocks) chaining to FreeBSD with C:\boot2="FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE" added to boot.ini (This also gets around the BIOS limitation on boot partition location!) Good luck, Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message