Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 10:09:35 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: "Paul Moore" <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy (ie, without a bootloader on the hard disk) Message-ID: <20000521.10093500@mis.configured.host> In-Reply-To: <LPBBKGDEHNMONLBODEOHAEDACCAA.gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> References: <LPBBKGDEHNMONLBODEOHAEDACCAA.gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk>
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> Further down the line, I'd like to add FreeBSD as an option to my NT > bootloader (I do not want to switch bootloaders, even if the FreeBSD=20 one is > better...). To do this, I should only need a suitable MBR image which = I can > store in a file on the NT boot drive, and I can then change NT's=20 BOOT.INI to > add FreeBSD. For later reference, can anyone tell me how I get a=20 FreeBSD > MBR? (On Linux, I install the Linux MBR on the Linux disk instead of=20 the > boot disk, and then peel it off using dd - is there an option to do=20 this > with FreeBSD?) > Thanks for any help, > Paul Moore. > PS In case I didn't make it clear, my key requirement is to make no=20 change > at all to my existing NT disk - I want to isolate all my FreeBSD work = to the > second disk (at least for now). Dear Paul Moore, You might find the multi-os stuff (and related links) interesting,=20 which stuff is also found on-line at=20 http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multi-os/index.html ; also, you might=20 want to search the archives for NT & FreeBSD booting issues. AFAIR,=20 specific problems have been discussed extensively a good number of=20 times. I, too, use, (multa) inter alia, NT on the same box (3 HDs), but I=20 have adopted a different approach - ie I use a "fancy" boot loader --=20 which I don't feel like naming publicly for ... spam reasons. Good luck, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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