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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)
> >
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