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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:57:38 -0800
From:      Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        Kliment Andreev <klimenta@futurebit.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual Boot with Win2K
Message-ID:  <20020220195756.F12F737B402@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <002401c1ba47$4174c2e0$ca0110ac@bigbeat>
References:  <002101c1b876$a08afec0$0300a8c0@cb03> <20020219155434.GZ418@roman.mobil.cz> <002401c1ba47$4174c2e0$ca0110ac@bigbeat>

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On Wednesday 20 February 2002 11:46 am, Kliment Andreev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed FreeBSD on my second machine (K6-2 300Mhz, 256MB RAM) and I
> want to have dual boot.  I tried the same way as I did with Linux. I copied
> /boot/boot0 on floppy and modified boot.ini with this line -->
> c:\boot0="FreeBSD". After I reboot the system, a NT2K boot loader have
> appeared and when I choose FreeBSD, a FreeBSD boot loader appeared. I
> pressed F1 but except a beep nothing happened. Where I am doing wrong? I've
> searched all newsgroups using google but except a guy who was asking the
> same question like me, I could not find the answer.

I had a horrible time trying to get the NT bootloader to load FreeBSD. I 
think the core of the problem is that the FreeBSD bootloader is not a normal 
bootloader (I could be wrong). My MBR kept messing up along with other 
annoying oddities. Reading the FAQ closely, I discovered that you have to do 
something different if FreeBSD is not on the first harddrive, but it didn't 
say what to do in that situation. I finally gave up and used Grub.

David

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