Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:15:23 -0400 From: "Hays, Sam" <SGHays@PatioEnclosuresInc.com> To: "'Andy [Tecc Nops]'" <andy@tecc.co.uk>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: dual boot pain Message-ID: <F3E75182E249D3119CF1006008A950CE735953@mozart.patioenclosuresinc.com>
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Not liking to skate around problems I almost decided not to post, however if you do just want a solution, The way I had windows 2000 Pro and FreeBSD 4.3 to dual boot was this: Install Win2k on Primary partition (I used Fat32, if You go NTFS you probably have to make a 'boot' partition that is fat, although i'm not certain) - then installed FBSD43 on a secondary partition, telling it to leave the MBR alone. Booted with a DOS boot disk and installed xosl (www.xosl.org freeware boot manager, its great). It figured out where Win2k and BSD were and gave me a nice lil gui to boot (no pun intended). YMMV. Sam -----Original Message----- From: Andy [Tecc Nops] [mailto:andy@tecc.co.uk] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:20 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dual boot pain Hi all OK, trying to get a machine to dual boot FreeBSD 4.3 and W2K. I have two IDE drives. The pri drive has W2k loaded and the sec drive is fBSD. I've tried everything to get this machine to dual boot. Install fbsd then w2k, then w2k/fbsd, diff partitions, diff drives with no success. I've frantically searched lists/web docs but nothing seems to work. Here's my current boot.ini fyi..... [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)="FreeBSD Unix" C:\boot0 = "FreeBSD 4.2 0" C:\boot1 = "FreeBSD 4.2 1" C:\boot2 = "FreeBSD 4.2 2" I copied the bootX files from the CDROM #2 disk from /boot to c:\ Also, if I tell bios to boot C,A,SCSI then W2k loads (with the boot options from boot.ini above but none of the specified fbsd options work, machine just says either "boot error" or "PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT". However, if I tell bios to boot D,A,SCSI the fbsd boots normally. In a sane world I would be happy with this solution however the W2k is for use by "none" *nix people so I'd much rather the boot loader system works. Anyone any ideas? Ak To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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