Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:00:03 -0500 From: "Allen Pulsifer" <pulsifer@mediaone.net> To: "Mike Morgan" <mikemorgan@homenetwork.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: freebsd and NT Message-ID: <NBBBJNDFEKPEHPFCLNLHOEBLEKAA.pulsifer@mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <E3E1A9F2A227D311A1EC00902785C10819E394@utasvexg001.hfnweb.com>
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The BIOS always boots to the first disk, where NT is installed. If you want it to load the FreeBSD boot manager, you have to make sure the FreeBSD boot manager gets installed on the first disk. There is a way to do this during the install process, but its requires you to explicitly select the first disk and make some non-obvious menu choices. So this probably didn't happen when you installed. According to the documentation, you can use the program called BOOTINST.EXE in the TOOLS directory on the CDROM to install the FreeBSD boot manager. BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, I STRONGLY ADVISE YOU TO BACK UP YOU MASTER BOOT RECORD (MBR) FIRST, BECAUSE IT ALSO CONTAINS YOUR PARTITION TABLES. There is a good shareware program you can use called STB.COM. This program can be downloaded at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/garbo/garbo_pc/sysutil/stbfp20.zip YOU NEED TO BACKUP YOUR MBR TO A DOS BOOTABLE FLOPPY DISK AND MAKE SURE YOU PUT A COPY OF STB.COM ON THE DISK, TOO. Allen -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Morgan Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 1:53 PM To: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org' Subject: freebsd and NT I did an install of 3.1 from the cdrom. I have NT server 4 with NT on the Master eide drive and freebsd and on the slave eide drive. During the install I had it install the BootManager, but every time that I reboot my comp, the NTLDR comes up and doesnt give me the option for freebsd. How can I get multiboot to work? What is the best os loader to use and how do I configure it. (i.e. NTLDR vs. BootManager or BootEasy) Thanks for your help Mike Morgan Internal/External Support Engineer Home Financial Network 1337 East 750 North Orem, UT 84097 (801) 234-5740 mikemorgan@homenetwork.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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