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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:21:12 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Roger P. Johnson" <rpj@fep.hirshfields.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot Manager
Message-ID:  <199901271921.NAA12775@fep.hirshfields.com>
In-Reply-To: <36AF4366.862A258D@uk.radan.com> from Mark Ovens at "Jan 27, 99 04:48:38 pm"

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> Kevin Sharp wrote:
> > 
> > I have two hard drives installed in my computer: one for Windows 98/Windows
> > NT and the other dedicated to FreeBSD.  I managed to get FreeBSD installed
> > on the second drive, but the boot manager does not work.  I still see the
> > Windows NT boot manager.   I even tried adding an entry in boot.ini to point
> > to the second drive, but whenever I choose that option I get a page fault
> > error.  Is there a way I can either get the FreeBSD boot manager to install
> > on my C drive or to get my current boot manager to start up FreeBSD?
> > 
> 
> If you've got NT on the box the easiest thing to do is to add FreeBSD
> to NT's boot manager. It's in the FAQ, "Can I add FreeBSd to the NT
> boot manager" or similar wording. IIRC it's section 2.25.
> 
> Basically you just copy the first sector of the FreeBSD partition
> (using dd(1)) to a file on C:\, e.g. BOOTSECT.BSD, and clone the entry
> for booting DOS/W95 in BOOT.INI to add a FreeBSD option.

But I believe that only works IF both NT and FreeBSD are on the _same_ hard 
drive. Not on seperate drives as he state above. I have the same problem
at home and just boot off of the boot floppy when I need FreeBSD. Search 
the mailing list archives ...

    Roger
> 
> HTH
> 
> > Kevin Sharp
> > 
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