Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:32:09 PDT From: "Shameek Basu" <shameek_basu@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Using the NT Boot Manager with FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000510213209.38485.qmail@hotmail.com>
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I have been trying to get the W2k boot manager to bootstrap into FreeBSD 4.0 for a long time without success. I have Win 2k on my first IDE drive, and FreeBSD 4.0 on my 4th IDE drive (the 2nd drive is an IDE with Linux, and the secondary master is a CD-ROM). Currently I am using the W2k boot manager to load W2k/Linux. After reading the list archives, I tried a couple of things: 1) I copied /boot/boot0 to C:\bootsect.bsd and pointed C:\boot.ini to C:\bootsect.bsd. Since FreeBSD is on a different disk than W2k, I chose this solution. When I was installing FreeBSD I opted not to have any boot record anywhere, though I had made my FreeBSD slice "bootable" (I guess that means it was made a primary partition on my 4th IDE). When I chose this option from the NT boot manager, it wiped out my NT boot manager. My questions: Whats wrong with this approach? Should I have installed a boot record on the MBR of IDE disk 4? Has this recommended process changed from 3.x to 4.x of FreeBSD? Should I have used "dd" instead of just copying the boot0 file? 2) I reinstalled W2k and FreeBSD, and copied /boot/boot1 to C:\bootsect.bsd and repeated the same process. This time the NT boot manager was not corrupted, but I got a "Boot Error" message and the system hung. I have read and followed the instructions in the FAQ for loading FreeBSD with NT loaded (similar to the above steps), with no success. Does anyone have a clue how to boot into FreeBSD 4.0 using W2k loader when FreeBSD is on a different disk than NT? And whether I need to install a boot record on the MBR of the disk that FreeBSD resides on. Will choosing to write a boot record during installation overwrite the MBR of the disk that FreeBSD is being installed on or will it overwrite the MBR of the first disk that the BIOS reads at boot time? And lastly how can one make a boot diskette specific to a FreeBSD installation? The Linux installation offers a way to do this, does FreeBSD too? If there isn't how can I boot to my FreeBSD installation when my experiments with NT loader fails? Thanks in advance Shameek ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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