Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:10:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: mathezer@newera.ab.ca (Stephen Mathezer) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to use NT boot loader? Message-ID: <199602282110.OAA08924@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960227164237.6224A-100000@feisal.newera.ab.ca> from "Stephen Mathezer" at Feb 27, 96 04:50:25 pm
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> I Used the same method for booting NT and FreeBSD. The one problem I had > was due to the fact that I had a separate disk for each OS. NT is of > course on the boot drive. I copied the boot sector from the FreeBSD > drive to a file in C:\ on NT and modified boot.ini...... The problem was > that of course that boot sector expected to be on the second drive, not > the first and therefore failed exactly as the original poster described. > In the end, I just made a small FreeBSD '/' partition on my primary hard > drive and now things work fine. > > Sorry for the laymans terms but that is the way I understand it. Please > correct me if I am wrong and also let me know if I can get rid of '/' on > my NT drive and keep the two OSs on completely separate hard drives. You can also build a new second stage boot, and hard code the drive and unit numbers to force the BSD boot to load from the second drive. You will have to look at /sys/i386/boot/... to work this out for yourself. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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