Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:10:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: docs/13207: Update to the FAQ Message-ID: <199909090010.RAA34079@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
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Subject: docs/13207: Update to the FAQ
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 01:01:25 +0100 (BST)
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Originator: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
>Organization:
>Confidential: no ] (one line)>
>Synopsis: Update to the FAQ
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Category: docs
>Release: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386
>Class: change-request
>Environment:
>Description:
New diff for DocBook FAQ
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
*** book.sgml.orig Mon Sep 6 22:16:42 1999
--- book.sgml Thu Sep 9 00:50:00 1999
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*** 3471,3476 ****
--- 3471,3479 ----
<qandaentry><question>
<para>How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?</para></question><answer>
+ <para>The procedure is slightly different for 2.2.x and 3.x (with the
+ 3-stage boot) systems.</para>
+
<para>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
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*** 3489,3499 ****
</literallayout>
</para>
! <para>This procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD, or whatever
! have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions on the
! <emphasis remap=bf>same</emphasis> 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, <emphasis remap=bf>not</emphasis> the disk MBR.</para>
<para>Mount a DOS-formatted floppy (if you've converted to NTFS) or the
FAT partition, under, say, <filename>/mnt</filename>.</para>
--- 3492,3503 ----
</literallayout>
</para>
! <para>For 2.2.x systems this procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD,
! or whatever have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions
! on the <emphasis remap=bf>same</emphasis> 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,
! <emphasis remap=bf>not</emphasis> the disk MBR.</para>
<para>Mount a DOS-formatted floppy (if you've converted to NTFS) or the
FAT partition, under, say, <filename>/mnt</filename>.</para>
***************
*** 3525,3530 ****
--- 3529,3543 ----
``<emphasis remap=tt>fdisk</emphasis>'' command after you reconfigure them to boot from their
native partitions.</para>
+ <para>For 3.x systems the procedure is somewhat simpler.</para>
+
+ <para>If FreeBSD is installed on the <emphasis remap=bf>same</emphasis>
+ disk as the NT boot partition copy <filename>/boot/boot1</filename>
+ to <filename>C:\BOOTSECT.BSD</filename> or, if FreeBSD is installed on a
+ <emphasis remap=bf>different</emphasis> disk, copy
+ <filename>/boot/boot0</filename> to <filename>C:\BOOTSECT.BSD</filename>.
+ Then edit the <filename>C:\BOOT.INI</filename> file as described above.</para>
+
</answer></qandaentry>
<qandaentry><question>
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