Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:35:16 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bobj@ufl.edu> To: ben@cahostnet.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BootMgr and Dual Boot? Message-ID: <3AAE5A54.F09A38B5@ufl.edu>
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> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:20:34 -0500 > From: "Ben" <ben@cahostnet.com> > Subject: BootMgr and Dual Boot? > > - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just installed FreeBSD on my workstation after using Linux for > couple of days. During the install where it asks whether you want > BootMgr or Standard I think I chose Standard. I have W2K on the > other partition so I will need to boot to that as well using BSD boot > manager. I haven't finished the install because I had to work today > and it' s my home machine so I'll finish it tonight. But if I did > pick Standard which means I can only boot BSD, how can I fix this? I > will like to be able to boot both NT and BSD using BSD boot manager. > At least that was my plan. I installed 4.2-RELEASE and will be > upgrading to 4.2-STABLE right after my install. > I use the Windows NT/2000 bootloader instead. This minimizes the risk of upsetting W2K, and FreeBSD is happy. You will need to copy a FreeBSD file to the NT partition to do this, so _before_ you fix the MBR, copy the file to a DOS formatted floppy, or some other medium that you can read from W2K. I _think_ you can run the W2K install and it will notice you already have an installed system, and offer to repair it. Tell it to repair the boot sector. Then set up the NT Loader to offer FreeBSD as one of the choices when you boot. The basic instructions are at http://eachan.dorsai.org/~dcl/publications/NTLDR_Hacking/ (they are for NT 4.0, but should basically apply to W2K). Basically, you edit C:\BOOT.INI to offer FreeBSD as a choice, and point it at an image of the FreeBSD boot sector that you place on C:\ I think that www.freebsd.org has more specific instructions somewhere, as well. Some of the details changed between FBSD 3.x and 4.2-stable, so they might be a little out of date. - Bob > Any information leading to the fixing of this matter will be > appreciated!! > > Thanks, > Ben > -- ********************************************************* Bob Johnson Senior Systems Programmer bob@eng.ufl.edu College of Engineering 523 Weil Hall 352-392-9217 Office University of Florida 352-392-7063 Fax Gainesville, FL 32611 ********************************************************* "Security is not a product, it's a mentality." . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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