From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 1 17:01:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA05090 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:01:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA05081 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:00:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA05331; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 20:00:48 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199701020100.UAA05331@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: FAQ 6.6 To: jaitken@dimension.net Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 20:00:48 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701020029.TAA13830@gizmo.dimension.net> from "Jeff Aitken" at Jan 1, 97 07:29:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm trying to get multiple systems booting from the NT boot menu. I > read the FAQ (especially number 6.6) but all I've found so far talks > about everything being on the *same* disk. I've got NT4.0, Win '95, and > FreeBSD on three separate IDE drives and can't seem to get it to work. > > 1st drive on primary IDE: Win NT 4.0 > 2nd drive on primary IDE: Win '95 > 1st drive on secondary IDE: FreeBSD 2.1.5 > 2nd drive on secondary IDE: CD-ROM > > Any suggestions? I've browsed Microsoft's TechNet and other online > resources, but no mention of multiple OS' on *different* disks. > I currently boot NT/Win95/FreeBSD/Linux using a neat tool called: BOOTPART.EXE, that edits the WinNT boot.ini appropriately, and creates the boot block files for booting the other OSes. The biggest problem that I had was that Linux had to reside on my first IDE drive (LILO limitation.) Here is an URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm John