Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 21:09:07 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>, Paul Root <proot@iaces.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting using NT boot loader Message-ID: <oprgyn9hg80cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20021205201738.B396-100000@radzinschi.com> References: <20021205201738.B396-100000@radzinschi.com>
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:18:44 -0500 (EST), Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> wrote: > 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 [snip] >> $ 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. [snip] > 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 Never used bootpart. Looks interesting. Do you have a Win9x/ME installation on this computer? If not, try removing the C:\="Microsoft Windows" line from boot.ini. Couple other questions: (1) Is the Win2K partition active? (2) Are Win2K and FreeBSD installed to the same drive? If not, what's the config? -- Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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