From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 15:41:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf1.de (mail.Surf1.de [194.25.165.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4652537BBD2 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:41:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nils@frozenfeelings.com) Received: from ilka.ncptiddische.net (pC19F6996.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [193.159.105.150]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA09533 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:40:55 +0200 Received: from ilka.ncptiddische.net (ilka.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.1]) by ilka.ncptiddische.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA00708 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:41:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@frozenfeelings.com) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:41:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Nils Holland X-Sender: nils@ilka.ncptiddische.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot Problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I seem to have a boot problem which I will eplain in detail below. I hope that someone can help me. Well, I have a computer that has Windows NT 4.0 Workstation installed on the hard disk connected to the primary IDE port as master (Disk0). The whole partition is dedicated to WinNT. Now there is another HD in that computer. It's connected to the secondary IDE port as master (Disk1?). On that HD I installed FreeBSD. During the installation I said that I wanted to use the FreeBSD boot manager to allow me to choose betwen the two operating systems. After the installation, however, the system restarted and WinNT took over control without the FreeBSD bootmanager ever showing up. I then booted from a DOS-disk and used bootinst.exe from the FreeBSD /tools directory. When I tell it to write a boot sector to the first disk (the disk on which WinNT is installed) it seems to work, but when I re-boot the WinNT boot-loader takes over control againg without me ever seeing the FreeBSD bootmanager. The only thing I can do is the following: I can install the FreeBSD bootmanager on the 2nd HD (on which FreeBSD is installed) and then I can to to my BIOS and tell it to start from that drive. This works, but that way I can only boot FreeBSD, in order to get back to WinNT (well, I don't want to use it anyways, but there are others around here who want) I have to tell my BIOS again to boot from the NT-Disk. This is not very practical. I remember that once upon a time I used Linux with LILO on that 2nd HD of the computer and I could install LILO to the first HD. At boot time, LILO asked me whether to use Linux or NT. If I selected Linux, it booted it from the 2nd drive. When I selected NT, the NT bootloader popped up and started NT. Something like that should be possible with FreeBSD! I hope that someone can help me with this problem! Greetings, Nils To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message