Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:16:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual-boot with NT OS loader question Message-ID: <20010517221647.4756.qmail@web10305.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B042417.E1E0A78E@urx.com>
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Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> wrote: > When you add FreeBSD, you probably can just newfs the Linux partition as > a FreeBSD filesystem and leave the mbr alone. Then you add /boot/boot1 > as bootsect.bsd to your "c" drive. The FreeBSD slice has to be a primary > partition in NT terminology. I think Linux can install to an extended > partition. You can also delete the Linux partition and make it FreeBSD > at that point. > > Next, you replace your entry in boot.ini with something like > c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" > > It works like a charm. Indeed it did, thanks mate! Cheers, Graham __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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