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On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Scott Nolde wrote:

> I have a multi-boot system and wish to migrate my FreeBSD OS from ad1s3 to
> ad0s1.  Doing this wouldn't be a big deal since the actual migration is
> relatively easy.
>
> My problem is I have WinME installed on ad1s1 which lilo will boot to
> easily.  Lilo has a feature called map-drive which will fake the BIOS into
> thinking WinME is on the primary drive when, in fact, it's not.
>
> Does the FreeBSD bootloader have a similar configuration feature?  Or
> should I migrate my WinME partition over to the primary hard drive also?
Just in case there will not be a better answer:
I solved my migration problems by using GNU's grub (Grand Unified
Bootloader) /usr/ports/sysutils/grub
You build it on your FreeBSD-partition and from there you may copy it into
the MBR or on a floppy.



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