Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:33:05 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Tim Pushor <timp@orion.ab.ca> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on second SCSI disk? Message-ID: <347A00A1.7DE14518@whistle.com> References: <01bcf8d9$3c9969d0$0101a8c0@dedalus.orion.ab.ca>
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just install os-bs version 2 or booteasy (the default boot manager for FreeBSD) onto the first disk. (take a copy of what's there now first though) Both can be found in the deistribution somewhere.. Tim Pushor wrote: > > Well (looking rather embarassed) I commercially support NT and UNIX for a > large computer firm and know NT quite well. How to boot other OS's on a disk > other than the one NT is on by copying the boot sector of the disk to a file > and referencing it in Windows NT boot.ini does not seem to work unless the > other OS's boot partition resides on the same disk as NT. Mine doesn't. I > tried anyway, and my system will not boot. > > I attempted to put a standard (no prompt) boot loader on disk1 (or disk2) > and it didn't work either. I was using the /stand/sysintall utility. I > managed to get my system booting by using the FreeBSD boot disk and entering > 1:sd(1,a)/kernel at the floppy boot prompt. > > I guess what I really want to do is to install a boot loader on disk0 that > does exactly what I manually entered so that the NT boot loader is not > displayed. At this time I should be able to copy the boot sector from drive > 0 and copy it to a file, then restore the original boot sector of disk0 and > reference the file I just created in Windows NT boot.ini. Is this warped > thinking? > > I have looked at all the FAQ's I can and done searches on the mailing list > archives and was able to find very detailed instructions and theory on how > to boot FreeBSD from the NT boot loader if FreeBSD is on the same disk as > NT. I also do not trust sysinstall to do the right thing every time. There > must be a manual (configurable) way to install a boot loader explicitly > telling it which drive to load the kernel from, but I just cannot find it. > > In my mind, my solution should be simple, but finding documentation seems to > be my biggest problem. > > Thanks for your reply, > Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> > To: Tim Pushor <timp@orion.ab.ca> > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Monday, November 24, 1997 8:18 PM > Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on second SCSI disk? > > >On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Tim Pushor wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have installed FreeBSD many many times, but every time has been on hard > > >> disk 0. > >> > >> I now have a need to dual boot NT and FreeBSD, with NT being on the first > >> hard disk. I have tried everything I can think of and havn't been > >> successfull in getting FreeBSD booted of the second SCSI disk. > >> > >> Could anybody lend some advice? > > > >What have you tried? You can teach the NT bootloader about FreeBSD; > >answer is in the FAQ and/or mail archives. > > > >Doug White | University of Oregon > >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > > >
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