Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:02:17 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: James Felix Black <jfb@visi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k Message-ID: <398F7839.DD6B5430@urx.com> References: <q5q4s4xt7sp.fsf@isis.visi.com> <20000807192654.D254@parish>
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Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:22:46AM -0500, James Felix Black wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm wondering how best to boot both FreeBSD (4.1) and Windows 2000. > > It seems that 2000 interferes with any and all boot managers (go > > figure!), and short of booting off of floppy, my BSD system appears to > > be unreachable. > > > > Is booting off of floppy my only recourse? If so, is there a document > > that details what I will have to do to create a custom boot floppy? > > > > Someone mentioned (here on -questions I think) a long time ago that > the W2K boot manager worked the same way as the NT one and they had > NT, W2K, and FreeBSD all booting from the W2K boot menu. > > I can't find the post anymore (I had kept a copy) but if you look at > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN2138 it may help. Also > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multi-os/index.html I used your boot1 example to do all three (except it was four because Win98 was also on the system) Kent > > HTH > > > Thanks in advance, > > (jfb) > > > > -- > > My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, > > but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not > > forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > 4.4 - The number of the Beastie > ________________________________________________________________ > 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark > mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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