Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:48:38 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Kevin Sharp <ksharp@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager Message-ID: <36AF4366.862A258D@uk.radan.com> References: <000301be4a12$06680660$3c5d52c6@ksharp.eaj>
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Kevin Sharp wrote: > > I have two hard drives installed in my computer: one for Windows 98/Windows > NT and the other dedicated to FreeBSD. I managed to get FreeBSD installed > on the second drive, but the boot manager does not work. I still see the > Windows NT boot manager. I even tried adding an entry in boot.ini to point > to the second drive, but whenever I choose that option I get a page fault > error. Is there a way I can either get the FreeBSD boot manager to install > on my C drive or to get my current boot manager to start up FreeBSD? > If you've got NT on the box the easiest thing to do is to add FreeBSD to NT's boot manager. It's in the FAQ, "Can I add FreeBSd to the NT boot manager" or similar wording. IIRC it's section 2.25. Basically you just copy the first sector of the FreeBSD partition (using dd(1)) to a file on C:\, e.g. BOOTSECT.BSD, and clone the entry for booting DOS/W95 in BOOT.INI to add a FreeBSD option. HTH > Kevin Sharp > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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