From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 27 12:47:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08287 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:47:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-punt-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08269 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:47:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 105bsC-0001Dy-00; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:47:40 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id UAA01809; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:47:04 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13122; Wed, 27 Jan 99 20:47:01 GMT Message-Id: <36AF7B0C.E3D29D7C@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:46:04 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Roger P. Johnson" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager References: <199901271921.NAA12775@fep.hirshfields.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Roger P. Johnson" wrote: > > > 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 ... > I didn't know that, I've only got a single drive so I can't try it out, but since it's easy enough to do, and won't screw up anything that _is_ working it might be worth a try. BTW, I gave the wrong section in the FAQ, it should be 8.7 > Roger > > > > HTH > > > > > Kevin Sharp > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message