Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:15:25 -0600 From: "Justin L. Boss" <jlboss@yahoo.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, Chris Landauer <cal@rushe.aero.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kbstew99@hotmail.com Subject: Re: dual boot with 4.5 and windows 2000 pro - how? Message-ID: <20020228162519.801AD37B405@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3C7DE76E.9080904@owt.com> References: <200202280736.g1S7aeL07180@rushe.aero.org> <3C7DE76E.9080904@owt.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
How do you make that bootsect.bsd manually. If i remember right you do dd if=/dev/ad0s? of=bootsect.bsd bs=512K count=1 or dd if=/dev/ad0s? of=bootsect.bsd bs=1K count=512 or something like that. If you know let me know. thanks. On Thursday 28 February 2002 02:16 am, Kent Stewart wrote: > Chris Landauer wrote: > > hihi, all - > > > > > > i asked how to set up a w2k machine with dual boot for freebsd > > 4.5, and i got an answer > > > >> If you want to share files with W2K, you need a fat32 partition > > somewhere. > > >> You can read NTFS but not write to it. > >> > >> > >> As far as booting them, all you have to do is copy /boot/boot1 > >> to your "c" drive and add it to the boot.ini. > > > > (1) all partitions on the windows side are already fat32, not ntfs > > (this is not what the problem is) > > There is no security in FAT32. > > > (2) i have not found a system to boot on the machine that CAN copy > > anything to the MBr (master boot record) or from /boot/boot1 > > > > under w2k it says ``don't do that - it didn't work'' > > > > under freebsd boot disks it says it has done it, and it has not > > > > this is exactly the problem - how to tell w2k to change the MBR, > > or what programs can do the appropriate change externally > > There is a hidden file on your c-drive called boot.ini and you have to > do an "attrib boot.ini" to see it. You have to alter the permissions, > edit, and set it back to what it was. My boot.ini look like > > [boot loader] > timeout=5 > default=c:\bootsect.bsd > [operating systems] > c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP > Professional" /fastdetect > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(3)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 > Professional" /fastdetect > > It is set to boot FreeBSD 4.5. To use boot1, you have to have your / > file system on the same HD as your c-drive. The file bootsect.bsd was > /boot/boot1 from the bsd fs. Having your system on 2 HDs on separate > contollers improves somethings like build worlds. I have 3 active HDs > for buildworld speed. > > Your bios and the active partition on the HD tells the computer which > system to boot. > > Kent > > > the worst case is to take the hard drives out of the current box, > > mount them physically in some other freebsd system on some other > > box, and write on them from there - i know that that would work, > > but i would prefer to avoid that if possible > > > > ``and add it to the boot.ini.'' - i do not know what this clause > > means, neither the ``it'' that is referenced nor what it is that > > needs to be added to file ``boot.ini'' (which i know is a windows > > file of some sort) > > > > more soon, cal _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020228162519.801AD37B405>