Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:57:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> To: Jim Arnold <jim@ohio.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how to dual boot freebsd, windows98 with 2 disks? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106041435050.54929-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> In-Reply-To: <a0501048eb741934e914c@[206.128.102.10]>
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On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Jim Arnold wrote: > Is it even possible to configure a computer to have one disk > running windoze 98 and the other FreeBSD? It isn't clear what your asking, but no matter how I read it, the answer is still "Yes." > I have scoured usenet and google and have found very little in > the way of help. i did find one page that claimed > to know the secret. what i did below was based on that site. > > I have two hard drives, ad0 and ad1. ad0 has win98 (uhg) already > installed. ad0 is 4.3 gig and ad1 is 10gig > > I boot from the 4.3 BSD CD, choose standard install, hit the > space bar to select ad0 which sends me into fdisk. i immediately > quit out of fdisk and choose to install the freebsd boot manager > under BootMgr (this is the default selection). i say "ok" and go > back to the select drives page. i down arrow to ad1 and press the > space bar which takes me to fdisk for ad1. > > i make 4 partitions and then choose q. now i'm back at the > install boot manager page for ad1. I choose to install the > freebsd boot manager under BootMgr (this is the default > selection). > [edit] > > F1 DOS > Looks like you have a bad/missing boot sector (sector 1) on your second disk (ad1). > I can't boot into FreeBSD. I have done this install several > times. once making the root slice of the FreeBSD disk "bootable." > > If you are running win98 and freebsd two hard drives please clue > me into the secret of pounding that vile beast 98 into > submission. Can't booteasy do the job? Win98 has nothing to do with it. Read each of the following and decide what might be right for you. 1. man boot0cfg 2. ExtIPL (http://www.tsden.org/ryutaroh/extipl/) 3. GRUB (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/) .cr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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