Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:22:51 +0930 (CST) From: Christine Jaeger <cjag@knfpub.com> To: Anne-Sophie Hombert <as_hombert@ibm.net> Cc: "FreeBSD (newbies)" <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Booting FreeBSD with Win NT Message-ID: <XFMail.990615212251.cjag@knfpub.com> In-Reply-To: <000601beb515$6c0eea10$01010101@ash>
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Hi there, We use a free third-party boot loader called os-bs to boot three partitions containing NT, win95 and FreeBSD. It works a treat, and is fairly easy to set up. I always get a laugh that this little piece of freeware can do what a huge monolithic system such as NT cannot. But then, the dudes who wrote osboot aren't fussy about what OS's you run ;) If you have trouble finding it let me know, and I'll chuck my rather old copy of it on a server for you. Cheers, Christine Jaeger. P.S For anyone wanting to cram as many OS's on a hard drive as possible, remember that NT boot files need to be located in the first partition. One day I'll find enough spare cash to simply buy another hard drive.....<g> On 12-Jun-99 Anne-Sophie Hombert wrote: > A real newbie question ... > > I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.8. Since I have also NT running on the system, > I did not to install booteasy nor modify the MBR. For the moment I boot > FreeBSD from the install disk, using "wd(1,a) kernel" at the boot prompt. > > The system configuration is as follows (HP vectra, PII 450 Mhz, 128 Mb RAM): > - primary HDD (10Gb) entirely dedicated to NT, on the first controller as > master > - secondary HDD with 2 partitions (4Gb), first controller, slave: a very > small DOS partition(7 Mb), just enough to allow HP power management utility > to recognize the drive and put it to sleep when it's not used and the rest > (so about 4Gb) dedicated to FreeBSD. > > I have tried to apply the method in the FAQ to boot via NT loader, but it > does not work. > > Now the question : do I have any other options than the boot floppy to load > FreeBSD on a system with Win NT installed ? > > Thanks for your help, > > Anne > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Christine Jaeger <cjag@knfpub.com> Date: 15-Jun-99 Time: 20:55:19 http://www.knfpub.com/ ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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