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Date:      Mon, 4 Jun 2001 07:47:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Peter Ulrich (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        <smnoldelinux@mediaone.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dual booting
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106040736490.3154-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20010603153547.U85038-100000@bsd.smnolde.com>

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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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