Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:31:10 -0400 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Plamen Petkov <plamendp@techno-link.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: WinNT && FreeBSD (on the secondary HD) Message-ID: <19980721133110.C20330@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <35B47CAB.34CB9A3A@techno-link.com>; from Plamen Petkov on Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 02:34:04PM %2B0300 References: <35B47CAB.34CB9A3A@techno-link.com>
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On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 02:34:04PM +0300, Plamen Petkov wrote: > Hi, > > I currently run Win95 on the First HD (master on prim. hdc) and FreeBSD > (slave on ' hdc)... and CDROM (master on second. hdc). FreeBSD booteasy > on the first HD... you know... F1: DOS, F5:FreeBSD.. etc.. > > I want to install NT over Win95 (easy part)... but still to be able to > run the lovely FreeBSD... Yes. > I read the MultiOS FAQ (or was it in Handbook ?!.. nevermind) but there > is an example with bootinst regarding situation where Win NT && FreeBSD > are on the SAME disk.. just on different partitions... > > I will make the first step : remove the second disk and happily install > the NT... but how to arrange the booting process after connecting the > second "freebsd" disk ? I am sure there are other methods, but you can use NT's boot manager. The idea is to copy FreeBSD's MBR (512 bytes) into a file and add a reference to the file in NT's ``BOOT.INI'' file. Assuming that the FreeBSD MBR file is named BOOTSECT.BSD and that it is located in the root directory of NT's boot disk, the following BOOT.INI should work (sorry for the long lines). [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.00" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos C:\BOOTSECT.BSD="FreeBSD 3.0 Current" You can boot FreeBSD and use dd(1) to create the BOOTSECT.BSD file. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > Should I get the current 1st HD boot sector saved somewhere and then use > it in the NT's boot.ini ?...hmm.. too deep for me ... realy need help.. > > > 10x. > > -- > Plamen D. Petkov > > [remove the extra @] > plamendp@@techno-link.com ( > plamendp@@netscape.net > > ICQ# 2214327 [pdp] > > AOL IM Buddy: plamendp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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