From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 19 13:17:32 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 2ACF114BE1 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:17:25 -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 IAA20123; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 08:16:51 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from Jeff@Wagsky.com) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 08:16:50 +1100 (EST) From: Jeff Kletsky X-Sender: root@21.zoomsystems.com To: Stan Brown Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Risk of 3.0 -> 3.1 on Multi-Boot machin? 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- ***** ERRATUM ON PRIOR MESSAGE ***** ***** Should be "boot1" ***** 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. [...] 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:\boot1="FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE" ***** NOT "boot2" !!! 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