Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 22:27:53 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: booting FBSD from NT?? Message-ID: <19990510222753.B858@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990510153345.6364J-100000@crb.crb-web.com>; from Wayne Cuddy on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 03:35:05PM -0400 References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990510153345.6364J-100000@crb.crb-web.com>
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On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 03:35:05PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> I have some free space on my laptop and I wish to install FreeBSD. It
> currently has NT on it and I would like to add FreeBSD to the boot menu. Is
> this possible. Should I tell FBSD to install a Boot loader
No
> or should I just
> use 'dd' to copy of the first 512 bytes of the disk to a file on the NT
> partition and add that to the boot.ini file?
>
Yes. ITYM the first 512 bytes of the FreeBSD slice. FreeBSD must
be on the first disk for this to work.
> I have done this with Linux before but I unsure how to do this with FreeBSD.
> How could I tell FBSD to write to the boot block of the root partition if I
> need to?
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> Much thanks in advance,
>
> Wayne
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