Date: 12 Jun 2001 02:41:55 EST From: "Mark Sergeant" <msergeant@snsonline.net> To: "Hays, Sam" <SGHays@PatioEnclosuresInc.com>, "'Andy [Tecc Nops]'" <andy@tecc.co.uk>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: dual boot pain Message-ID: <200106120742.f5C7fvX01656@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> In-Reply-To: <F3E75182E249D3119CF1006008A950CE735953@mozart.patioenclosuresinc.com> References: <F3E75182E249D3119CF1006008A950CE735953@mozart.patioenclosuresinc.com>
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The easiest thing I have found is intall the FreeBSD boot loader on primary drive and secondary. Then when machine boots you use F5 to swap between drives and F1 to pick which OS to boot. Cheers, Mark On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:15:23 -0400, Hays, Sam said: > Not liking to skate around problems I almost decided not to post, however if > you do just want a solution, > The way I had windows 2000 Pro and FreeBSD 4.3 to dual boot was this: > Install Win2k on Primary partition (I used Fat32, if You go NTFS you > probably have to make a 'boot' partition that is > fat, although i'm not certain) - then installed FBSD43 on a secondary > partition, telling it to leave the MBR alone. > Booted with a DOS boot disk and installed xosl (www.xosl.org freeware boot > manager, its great). It figured out where Win2k > and BSD were and gave me a nice lil gui to boot (no pun intended). > YMMV. > > Sam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy [Tecc Nops] [mailto:andy@tecc.co.uk] > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:20 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: dual boot pain > > > Hi all > > OK, trying to get a machine to dual boot > FreeBSD 4.3 and W2K. I have two IDE drives. > The pri drive has W2k loaded and the sec drive > is fBSD. I've tried everything to get this > machine to dual boot. Install fbsd then w2k, > then w2k/fbsd, diff partitions, diff drives > with no success. I've frantically searched > lists/web docs but nothing seems to work. > > Here's my current boot.ini fyi..... > > [boot loader] > timeout=30 > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT > [operating systems] > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 > Professional" /fastdetect > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)="FreeBSD Unix" > C:\boot0 = "FreeBSD 4.2 0" > C:\boot1 = "FreeBSD 4.2 1" > C:\boot2 = "FreeBSD 4.2 2" > > I copied the bootX files from the CDROM #2 disk > >from /boot to c:\ > > Also, if I tell bios to boot C,A,SCSI then W2k > loads (with the boot options from boot.ini above > but none of the specified fbsd options work, > machine just says either "boot error" or > "PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT". However, if I > tell bios to boot D,A,SCSI the fbsd boots > normally. In a sane world I would be happy > with this solution however the W2k is for use > by "none" *nix people so I'd much rather the > boot loader system works. > > Anyone any ideas? > > Ak > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > -- Mark Sergeant Unix Systems Administrator Fortune follows... "I've seen, I SAY, I've seen better heads on a mug of beer" -- Senator Claghorn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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