From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 20: 2:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5941837B556; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:02:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00664; Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:02:17 -0700 Message-ID: <398F7839.DD6B5430@urx.com> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:02:17 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: James Felix Black , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k References: <20000807192654.D254@parish> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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