From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 20 01:26:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01315 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:26:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-1-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01250 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:25:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA00531; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:24:34 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901200924.LAA00531@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: dual boot problems In-Reply-To: <71D507C37988D11182ED0000F80462AC3A63CE@adsdevelop2.autodebit.com> from David Green-Seed at "Jan 20, 99 00:06:37 am" To: davidg@autodebit.com (David Green-Seed) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:24:22 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Green-Seed wrote: > Here's my problem: > > at 10:21pm PST (Jan 19th 1998) I cvsupped world, rebuilt, installed the new > boot blocks, and did a first-time install of an ELF kernel. Unfortunately, > I'm > dual-booting with windows 95 using fbsdboot.exe - which I just discovered > does not work with an ELF kernel. > > Has anyone encountered this problem (and what did you do to fix it) or does > anyone have any suggestions (other than getting rid of windows 95)? I've > checked around - and the only thing that I can come up with is that NTLDR > (the windows NT loader) will boot an elf FreeBSD using the new boot > blocks... > but I don't have NT. > > Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated. The fbsdboot.exe program should probably be considered obsolete. It should (in theory) be possible to use it to load /boot/loader, which can then load the kernel, but there are various reasons this doesn't work too well. The standard approach would be to install the FreeBSD boot manager. This displays a menu like F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD every time the machine is rebooted. So, whether in FreeBSD or Windows, you'd reboot to switch OSes. To install this, there's a utility at http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot0inst-1.0.2.tar.gz though you can also use sysinstall. There are also various alternative boot managers, commercial and otherwise. System Commander from V-Communications seems fairly popular: though I wouldn't personally pay a $100 list price for this kind of thing. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message