Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:58:27 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Ovens <marko@globalnet.co.uk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/13207: Update to the FAQ Message-ID: <199908172058.VAA00787@marder-1.>
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>Number: 13207
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Update to the FAQ
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 17 14:10:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mark Ovens
>Release: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD marder-1 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #3: Wed Jun 30 00:59:48 BST 1999 marko@marder-1:/usr/src/sys/compile/MARDER-1 i386
>Description:
Update to section 8.7 "How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?" of the FAQ
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Apply the following diff and re-make.
*** admin.sgml.orig Sun Aug 15 18:36:22 1999
--- admin.sgml Mon Aug 16 20:45:01 1999
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*** 193,198 ****
--- 193,201 ----
<sect1>
<heading>How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?</heading>
+ <p>The procedure is slightly different for 2.2.x and 3.x (with the
+ 3-stage boot) systems.
+
<p>The general idea is that you copy the first sector of your
native root FreeBSD partition into a file in the DOS/NT
partition. Assuming you name that file something like
***************
*** 210,218 ****
C:\="DOS"
</verb>
! <p>This procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD, or whatever
! have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions on the
! <bf/same/ disk. In my case DOS & NT are in the first fdisk
partition and FreeBSD is in the second. I also installed FreeBSD
to boot from its native partition, <bf/not/ the disk MBR.
--- 213,221 ----
C:\="DOS"
</verb>
! <p>For 2.2.x systems this procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD,
! or whatever have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions
! on the <bf/same/ disk. In my case DOS & NT are in the first fdisk
partition and FreeBSD is in the second. I also installed FreeBSD
to boot from its native partition, <bf/not/ the disk MBR.
***************
*** 242,247 ****
--- 245,259 ----
<p>If FreeBSD is booting from the MBR, restore it with the DOS
``<tt/fdisk/'' command after you reconfigure them to boot from their
native partitions.
+
+ <p>For 3.x systems the procedure is somewhat simpler.
+
+ <p>If FreeBSD is installed on the <bf/same/ disk as the NT
+ boot partition copy <tt>/boot/boot1</tt> to
+ <tt>c:\bootsect.bsd</tt> or if FreeBSD is installed on
+ a <bf/different/ disk copy <tt>/boot/boot0</tt> to
+ <tt>c:\bootsect.bsd</tt>. Then edit the
+ <tt>c:\boot.ini</tt> file as described above.
<sect1>
<heading>
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