Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:41:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Pushor <timp@orion.ab.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on second SCSI disk? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971125103717.17289K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bcf8d9$3c9969d0$0101a8c0@dedalus.orion.ab.ca>
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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, 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 wasn't aware of that limitation. I'm not familiar with NT, however (by direct choice), so you're my best source of info for this level of stuff. > 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. What is your partition layout and filesystem types on your disks? Booteasy may be confused by NTFS or some other tweak in your system. > 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? Kind of a two-stage selection boot? Assuming the NTloader doesn't occupy the boot sector you could do that. But you need a loader that understands your system. > 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. I don't either; try runing `bootinst.exe' off of the /tools directory on the CDROM or ftp site. Bring boot.bin with you. That is the manual way to install booteasy. 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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