From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 1:39:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B9C37BCEB for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 01:39:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.44]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 01:50:01 -0700 Message-ID: <38EC4D25.7B79CF7B@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 01:39:01 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Morrisby Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD loader problems (dual/multi boot) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Morrisby wrote: > > Hi there > > Please mail me back at: jim@saca.net as I am not currently subscribed to > this list. > > I am experiencing problems with the loader in FreeBSD, it worked great until > I installed win2k and win98 on the machine - as these > kinda redo the MBR. I reset the BSD partition active, but when i rebooted, i > ONLY have BSD to boot from. > I am have to set an active partition for which ever OS i want to run, this > is rather annoying! > > I know I need to reconfigure the loader, but I have no idea where to start. > Any help would be appreciated. > The Linux equiv for the above is: hda1 - bsd > hda2 - win98 > hda3 - win2k What I did was copy /boot/boot1 onto my Windows boot partition as bootsec.bsd. Then, I added c:\bootsec.bsd="FreeBSD" as an item in my boot.ini. It starts out as "shr" and you have to unattrib it, edit it, and then re-attrib +s +h =r boot.ini. You leave the partition where W2K is booting from as your active and everything is OK!. In my case, FreeBSD in on my primary master, otherwise I would have had to make /boot/boot0 my bootsec.bsd. Kent > > Thanks > Jim > > 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/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message