Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:44:23 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: rax@rakhesh.com Cc: Joe Kraft <hishadow@netcabo.pt> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR Message-ID: <41FDEFE7.1090204@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <38b3f6e4050130235957c049c2@mail.gmail.com> References: <38b3f6e40501292247696b96b@mail.gmail.com> <38b3f6e4050129231132f8e743@mail.gmail.com> <41FCA314.3070602@netcabo.pt> <38b3f6e4050130033551e43818@mail.gmail.com> <20050130120618.GA21695@alzatex.com> <38b3f6e4050130235957c049c2@mail.gmail.com>
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Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: >> No, boot0 is just a normal file that is 512 bytes long. There is >> nothing special about it. In it is a bootloader program that can be >> used to boot FreeBSD, and if you run it during boot, it will read the >> partition table and look for all OSes. I think it will modify the >> partition table, though, marking the last OS you booted into, but that's >> the program running doing that, the file itself is harmless. > > Ok. I must have used some other command then, which resulted in my > first disk MBR getting over-written ... strange. :-/ > > By the way, does the fact that NTLDR is on my first disk, while > FreeBSD (and hence its MBR boot0) is on my second disk complicate > matters? I mean, you mention boot0 will modify my partition table to > reflect which OS was booted last -- will it by any chance modify the > partition table on the first disk and hence mess it? > > Yes and yes, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER Regards, Mark --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0504-4, 28/01/2005 Tested on: 31/01/2005 08:44:24 avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com
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