Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:14:57 -0600 From: "Dave Page" <davecpage@earthlink.net> To: "FreeBSD-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: NT dual booting.... Message-ID: <001501bf6619$3109bac0$04c8c8c8@number2-98.davecorp.com>
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First, yes, I have RTFM (the FAQ at freebsd.org and the links) and I'm either too dumb to understand it, or it didn't supply what I needed. Situation: Installed FreeBSD (3.3) on a 4.3 gig HD. Works fine. Got new HD (17.3 gig). Have made 17.3 gig primary master and installed MS Workstation on it. 4.3 gig drive (w/BSD) is now primary slave--the MS fdisk shows the partition on the 4.3 as still ACTIVE. Of course, the first partition on the 17.3 gig drive is also active, but *it* is the master. QUESTION 1: Can I alter the NT boot loader to boot BSD off of the slave HD? If so, do I need to make the BSD partition on the slave HD non-active? If so, how (the MS fdisk doesn't work)? Here is what I've added to my boot.ini, and it doesn't work: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\XXXXX="FreeBSD" In place of the XXXXX I have tried "boot" and I have tried "kernel" (no quotes of course). I get an NT error that says "NT couldn't start because ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt." What directory or file do I need to point the NTLDR to, if this will even work? Also, do I have to use NT's Disk Administrator to assign it a drive letter instead of using an ARC path, and point NT's boot loader to the FreeBSD startup file via a drive letter? (In other words, like you have to do with Win95/98 when you dual boot with NT.) QUESTION 2: If I start over, and just install NT Workstation on the 17.3 gig, then install FreeBSD on the 17.3 gig, what happens if I install, for example, NT Server *after* that. In other words, if you don't choose FreeBSD from the FreeBSD boot loader, do you get dumped into the NT boot menu? That's kind of what I'm hoping... Or, would NT Server get added to the FreeBSD boot loader menu? Thanks, all. You guys that answer questions routinely are awesome. Dave Page davecpage@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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