Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 12:18:30 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Craig R <craigery13@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I wrote an NTLDR page that I would like evaluated Message-ID: <3B72E206.82A462FD@urx.com> References: <F148MSi6xzmeWgUSp3s00003025@hotmail.com>
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Craig R wrote: > > the URL is: > > http://www.geocities.com/craigery1326/usingntldr2.txt > > Please email me about comments/suggestions. I would like > to see this doc make the handbook, but I won't mind if it doesn't. There are a couple of things that I noticed. First is the history. Ntldr has been around since the first version of NT. Your article gives the impression, at least in my mind, that it is a Window 2000 thing. Someone running NT-4 would probably go HUH? and move on. What you are doing should also work with NT-4. I know of some systems running NT-3.x. I am not sure if I think that they know what they are doing but they usually have valid reasons. There are people running early versions of FreeBSD 2.x. With all of the security holes, I wonder about their reasons too. It would probably work with NT-3.x just as well. What you are doing is what I have done since I added FreeBSD to multiboot Windows systems. I think I follwed some comments by Mark Ovens. Some of these systems require deleting old version of Windows and adding new versions. None of the other boot managers handle this situation well. Installing a new version of NT will force adding the NTLDR back. FreeBSD is equally ego-centric because regardless of what you tell it to do, it will make its slice/partition the active one during an install. I follow stable and life is simple because no changes are required as you follow the upgrade path for these systems. I think your setup only works if the FreeBSD boot is on the disk0. There is a lot of thrashing that goes on if you install FreeBSD on disk1. Because I have my system setup for communicating between OSes, I have a Fat32 "C" drive. All of my OSes understand FAT32. There isn't any need to create a copy of /boot/boot0 on a floppy but I think it is safer. I have always loaded FreeBSD onto my disk0. There is a way to configure boot0 but I have always chickened out and installed FreeBSD on my disk0. When you install new versions of NT, it doesn't care and everything works well at that point. Kent > > Craig > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA Cool site http://www.bmwfilms.com mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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