Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 08:41:18 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: kwoody@citytel.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NT + FBSD + 95.. Message-ID: <374BA59E.9ED47EAB@uk.radan.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990525234211.2576A-100000@rosencrantz.citytel.net>
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Keith Woodworth wrote: > > For the heck of it I had a spare one gig laying about and threw it into a > machine that currently has one 4 gig drive partitioned into 2 - 2 gig > partitions. First is 95 second partition is FBSD. I installed booteasy > when I orginally installed FBSD (upgraded via make world twice) and > things have been fine for quite a long time. > > But as NT is on the second drive (formatted NTFS) is it possible to > re-install booteasy to recognize the second ide drive so I can boot any of > the three os's? > > When I installed NT I unhooked the first drive, installed the new one gig > and installed NT on it. So now when I want to boot into NT I power down, > swap cable from drive to drive and reboot. As you can imagine this is > becoming somewhat of a pain. > > I have done a search and find that most stuff pertains to using NT's > bootloader to load FBSD or 95 or having all reside on one disk. > > Any advice or pointers to how this might be done apprecieated. > Dead easy :-), unless you want to keep booteasy (even that may be simple, but I've never used it, and NT needs to boot from C: even though it maybe on the second drive, which means it "shares" the boot partition with 95). You can start FreeBSD from NT's Boot Mangler. My computer currently runs 95, NT4, and FreeBSD, all started from the NT boot menu. I think you'll need to re-install NT though (cos it's boot stuff is on the wrong drive). Install your 1GB HD as slave. BACKUP ANYTHING YOU CAN"T AFFORD TO LOSE!!! If you can't boot from your CD-ROM make a FreeBSD boot floppy, just in case it all goes tits up (shouldn't do, but the best laid plans of mice and men...etc), and make sure it works. Make a copy of the FreeBSD boot sector (change ``wd0s1'' to suit your system): dd if=/dev/wd0s1 of=/tmp/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1 Double check the above in the FAQ as I'm doing this from memory (I'm at work). Copy /tmp/bootsect to the root dir of you FAT partition (i.e. C:\). Now re-install NT on the second drive. It will overwrite your MBR so when you restart you will get the NT boot menu with 95 and NT on it. Boot 95 or NT and edit C:\BOOT.INI (it's read-only, hidden, system so you'll have to use ``attrib -r -s -h BOOT.INI'' first) and make an entry for FreeBSD by copying the 95 entry, changing ``BOOTSECT.DOS'' to ``BOOTSECT.BSD''. Reboot, and you should see FreeBSD on the menu. Select it and FreeBSD should boot :-). Support for mounting NTFS partitions is in 3.2, but support can be added to 2.2.x and 3.1. See my webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov HTH. > Please CC: kwoody@citytel.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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