Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:18:44 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: Paul Root <proot@iaces.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: booting using NT boot loader Message-ID: <20021205201738.B396-100000@radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <3DEFBA04.7000709@iaces.com>
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Paul Root wrote: > Hi, > I used to have this working then I reimaged my > Windows 2000. > > Anyway, I have Windows 2000 on the C: (first partition) > and FreeBSD on the second. VMWare is installed on Win2000. FreeBSD > is 4.7-Stable of not that long ago. > > If switch the active partion to be the FreeBSD > partition it boots fine. However, I get a failure if I > go thru the NT boot loader. > > I copied boot1 from /boot to C:\ and called it bootsect.bsd > I do a sum on FreeBSD and on Win 2000 (cygwin what a lifesaver) and > They come up the same: > > proot@PTROOT /cygdrive/c > $ sum bootsect.bsd > 30147 1 > > proot@PTROOT /cygdrive/c > $ cat boot.ini > [boot loader] > timeout=5 > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT > [operating systems] > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 > Professional" > /fastdetect > C:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" > C:\="Microsoft Windows" > > > What am I doing wrong here? I tried copying the file to a peerless > drive when just booted in FreeBSD and then moving it over with Explorer, > then I copied it in FreeBSD, gzipped it, copied it over, gunziped it in > cygwin and used mv in cygwin to rename. > > Sorry, I'm not currently on the list, don't have time to read. Any help > would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Paul. > > > > -- > Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com > 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S PAG: +1 (877) 693-7155 > Minneapolis, MN 55413 WRK: +1 (612) 664-3385 > NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 664-4779 Just use bootpart, and run it under windows. Tell it which partition is your FreeBSD one, and it will create the appropriate bootsector file (and entry). http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com Thu Dec 5 20:17:38 EST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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