Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:20:41 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: NT4, FBSD, different disks and booting Message-ID: <199707251720.MAA23099@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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Mine is a quite common situation, I would think. Description: a new PentiumPro, which, of course, comes with an IDE disk. Not wanting to demean ;) FreeBSD by installing it on the IDE disk, I installed FBSD on an external 4 GB SCSI (not "dangerously dedicated", just the standard slice install). NT 4.0 workstation is living on the whole IDE disk (I need to boot BT sometimes to use Excel and Word). I went to the FAQ to see how to setup the NT bootmanager to handle the dual boot, where I see that the recipe only works if both are on the same disk. Aha, says I, I just need a customized boot block. So I went to the biosboot directory where I compiled a bootblock with BOOT_HD_BIAS=1, substituted boot1 (obtained after the make) for the boot block normally acquired via dd in the recipe, and still got a "no bootable partition" error, with no FBSD boot. Does anyone know how to handle this type of (likely quite common) situation? Booting off a floppy is getting old fast. Bud Dodson PS, I posted this on usenet, but doubting there would be any response there, I'm also posting here. I should have just posted here; sorry for the slight spam. -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790
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