Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 22:47:37 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Abe Olson <abeolson23@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: winxp bootloader to boot Freebsd Message-ID: <3CCCDE79.5070301@owt.com> References: <3CCCA4E1.7000505@attbi.com>
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Abe Olson wrote: > I found these instructions: > http://bsdvault.net/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=88 > > However I cannot get this to work. This line in the insctructions > returns a "device not configured" when I try to run this command. > > dd if=/dev/rad0a of=/mnt/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1 > > I'm sure that this assumes that the system is a dualboot on a single > disk on a primary controller. My system is an a7v133 and all my disks > are on the promise controller. My winxp disk is the primary master and > my BSD disk is the secondary master. > > I tried changing the command to this: > > dd if=/dev/ad6s of=/mnt/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1 > > since df reports that my disk is ad6s. > > Could anyone help me with this please? I don't really understand the > bsd disk naming scheme so I'm stuck. Have you read the article on multi-os systems at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/index.html. People are doing what you are so there is a solution out there. I recognized the problems with using the second disk and made my / on my first drive. Then, all you had to do is cp /boot/boot1 on to your c-drive and add it to your boot.ini and you had the NTLDR. I was always playing with NT4/W2K/XP and fighting the conversion was too much work. I setup the NTLDR to do what I wanted and never had to change anything when I added something on the MS side. The only thing you have to is translate slices into partitions and you have what you see on XP. I wanted them to start out at ad0 and ad1 and configured my kernel to do that. There is a speed advantage when it comes to doing things such as buildworlds if you have the source and the output on different controllers. Kent > > Thanks in advance, > > Abe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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