From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 23 15:18:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27145 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27067 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:18:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04489; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:22:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809232222.PAA04489@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug Russell cc: Luigi Rizzo , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:47:30 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:22:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Is there a way to boot a FreeBSD kernel from NT ? I have been told that > > fbsdboot does not run because of protection problems.... > > > > I admit i want to make things difficult, because i cannot have a > > FreeBSD partition on the disk so i need to boot a kernel from an > > NTFS partition (not necessarily from NT, even from the boot manager > > would do but i doubt i can load it!) > > lynx /usr/share/doc/FAQ/FAQ101.html > > It has been there for quite some time, and it works great. I always keep > a recent copy of bootsect.bsd around to make it easy. :) It's on page 121 now, but you should be using the section number (8.7) instead. Unfortunately, this doesn't do what Luigi wants. All you get from this is the ability to put FreeBSD in the NT bootloader menu - you still have to have a FreeBSD partition on the disk. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message