Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 03:09:59 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: "Andy [Tecc Nops]" <andy@tecc.co.uk> Cc: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dual boot pain Message-ID: <3B29DEF7.B666ACC1@urx.com> References: <NDBBKOKIGKLFGGPFHCGBGEKGDDAA.andy@tecc.co.uk>
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"Andy [Tecc Nops]" wrote: > > > Did you say "YES" to install the boot manager when you were installing > > FreeBSD? > > > > Install Winblows, then Install FreeBSD and accept to install the boot > > manager. That has always worked for me, regardless of the version of > > Winblows ;-) > > > > -Wash > > I said "NO" to install the FreeBSD boot manager as I wanted to use the NTLdr > but the FreeBSD boot loader still got loaded! I didn't expect that. I > normally > run FreeBSD boxes in "dangerously dedicated" mode and never had a problem. > This > is the first time I've ever tried to dual boot. In the end what I did was > partition > my pri master ide drive into two 6G partitions. Installed W2k onto the first > part/ > and all was fine. I then installed FreeBSD into the next partition and said > NO to > install the FreeBSD boot manager. Like I said, it did install it anyway > (??). So > I then ran the "Repair" utility from the W2k disk and choose the "FIXMBR" > option. > This brought back the the NTLdr. Then, from FreeBSD cdrom #2 I copied > /boot/boot1 > to the W2k c:\ and added this to the boot.ini as described in many of the > "Kent" > postings to -questions. You use boot1 if it is on the same drive and boot0 for different drives. I've have always spread my system across all of the drives to have each drive on a separate controller for speed. My / slice has always been on the same drive and I use boot1 as bootsect.bsd. There were some odd things that happened in 3.x that I avoided. > > Once I had a nice dual boot machine it wasn't hard to go to single user mode > and > transfer /usr to the second IDE drive I had installed. I had made the > orginal > /home partition *very* small cos the freed space from moving /usr to it's > own drive > then became /home. I had the luxury of both OSs being nice brand new > installs so > trashing the drives over and over wasn't a prob (good practice, I musta > installed > both OSs about 15 times at least!) I would have assumed that using boot0 as bootsect.bsd would have booted off of your 2nd hd. There are several people that come to mind that boot off of the 2nd hd. I don't remember if they had to run boot0cfg or not. > > All in all I'm very happy with what I have now but am still unsure as to why > I couldn't > create a dual boot machine where each OS is on a seperate phyiscal drive as > opposed to the > final solution of using one drive partitioned and "mounting" the second > drive later in the > FreeBSD boot process. No idea here. I typically mount 3 drives using fstab. I have /usr/src in a large usr2 and /usr/obj in large usr3. Kent > > All's well, that ends well. fyi I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.5 and > never had > any problems with either installing or running it. Excellent OS. This was my > first real > problem and, well, obvious why really isn't it, I tried to install a > commercial Osystem > that I actually paid for, then the troubles began (or should I say 'begin'?) > ;) > > btw, prior to my coming into fBSD at 2.2.5 I was a *commited* M$ user, even > deployed a large > NT system at Co I worked at. Well, with hindsight...... you get the drift. > > Thanks to everyone help on this. > > Regards > Ak > > Mysig: all the above is *my* opinion! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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