Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:44:01 -0500 (EST) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Sam Hays <sam@ecofl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DualBoot issues Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001202232190.1681-100000@genisis.istar.ca> In-Reply-To: <002e01bf636a$7c646260$297631cc@ecofl.com>
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Hi Sam, (I did not reply to freebsd-newbies as this post belong on questions, not newbies) Regarding modifying the boot.ini, go to: http://www.freebsd.org/faq and under section 7. System Administration you want How Can I Use the NT Loader to Boot BSD. I've done this on dozens of systems with success. However, if I was starting from scratch, I'd save myself some hassle and physically swith the drives so I could install BSD on the first drive. I've had better luck modifying the boot.ini to point to NT on my 2nd drive than to muck with putting BSD on a second drive. When you install BSD, remember to say yes to installing the boot manager. Note you'll end up with TWO boot menus; one will be a press F1 or F2 menu which will be followed by the NT boot menu if you choose NT. Once you've added BSD to your boot.ini and verified that you can boot both OSs from NT, an fdisk /mbr removes the BSD boot menu and you're left with just NT's boot menu. Pretty slick. My test box is running Win98, NT WS, NT Server, FreeBSD and Novell 5, all booting from my boot.ini. Of the lot, BSD was the easiest to install where I wanted it to go; the only one that had me pulling out my hair was Novell--but that's another story. If you are wary of messing with your boot.ini, email me off the list for help. Dru On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Sam Hays wrote: > Here's the whole deal, > > I have a primary and secondary HDD (1.6 and 1.2 respectively) - > on HD1 I have Windows NT , on HD2 I have Fat16 (which I'm using as a backup > drive right now) - > > What I'm wanting to do is, install freebsd on Drive 2 and somehow add it to > the NT boot.ini boot loader (if not, I suppose I will go with the FreeBSD > boot loader) - I need to know if freebsd 3.3 supports NTFS - > also, another scenario I'm worried about is - > Say I install BSD - suddenly NT Crashes and I have to reload - fine - > NT always overwrites the MBR - thus making it (impossible?) hard to get into > BSD again w/out reinstalling - > can someone gimme some comments on all that? > thanks > -Sam > > > > 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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