Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:39:32 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Sims <jellicle@inch.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: dual-boot to second drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000325122206.2919B-100000@shell.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <200003251437.JAA82535@server.baldwin.cx>
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > On 25-Mar-00 Michael Sims wrote: > > > > I have two physical IDE drives, primary master C: with Win98, and primary > > slave with (I hope) a successful installation of FreeBSD 3.4 on it from > > CD-ROM. I say "I hope" because I don't have any way to boot into it > > except by booting the 3.4 CD-ROM, which starts the installation process, > > or by booting from the kernel and mfsroot floppies I made, which also > > start the installation process. > > > > Now, I believe I need a boot manager at the beginning of the C: to query > > me whether I want to boot into Windows or FreeBSD. However, _The Complete > > FreeBSD_ sure doesn't seem to discuss this particular situation, at all. > > What is the best way of doing this without running any significant risk of > > devastating the C:? > > Boot up into the installation. Don't reinstall FreeBSD, but instead go to > Configure -> Fdisk -> wd0 -> type 'Q' to exit that screen -> BootMgr should > be selected, so just hit Enter, and that should do the trick. If you want > a nicer looking boot manager, go into Windows 98, pop in the FreeBSD CD, and > look in the tools/ subdirectory for osbsbeta.exe. (Don't worry, it says beta, > but I've never had any problems with it). Make a bootable floppy, then copy > osbsbeta.exe over onto the floppy. Pop up a DOS window and run osbsbeta while > on A: to extract it. It contains a README, and you can just boot your system > off the floppy to install it. Be sure and save a copy of your current MBR when > doing this so that in case something does happen to break for some weird reason, > you can restore your working setup. That is detailed in the README, IIRC. This doesn't work for what I want to do. OS-BS will let me dual-boot to any OS's that have partitions on the primary hard disk - but that disk is 100% Win98. Every example I've seen assumes that there are multiple different OS partitions on a single hard disk, and the second disk, if any, is only used to provide some more space for OS whatever. This page: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multi-os/ch3.html covers *that* situation fairly well. What I'm looking for is any way to boot to an OS that does NOT have a partition on the primary master hard disk in the system? -- Michael Sims To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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