Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:15:10 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Shameek Basu <shameek_basu@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using the NT Boot Manager with FreeBSD Message-ID: <3917204E.A17EDBC1@3-cities.com> References: <20000508195309.35519.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Shameek Basu wrote: > > Hi, > I have NT loaded on IDE disk1, Linux loaded on IDE disk2 and am > trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on IDE disk4 (disk3 is the CD-ROM). Currently > I am using NT's boot mgr to boot into NT/Linux, and want to continue to use > it since I have heard that it is sort of sensitive. > > I have seen postings which say that using > > dd if=/dev/wd0c of=/mnt/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1 > > and altering the boot.ini file in the NT partition will allow me to > choose to boot into FreeBSD. I wanted to know if this will continue to work > in FreeBSD 4.0 (the postings were for earlier verions)... I never did that. It was too easy to copy /boot/boot1 as a file to my "C" drive. I called it bootsec.bsd and added that to my boot.ini. Works like a charm. I can use NT to swap what I want to be the primary boot, which is FreeBSD. Kent > > Thanks, > Shameek > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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