From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 13:20:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA13621 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:20:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13557 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:20:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA08924; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:10:49 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602282110.OAA08924@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: how to use NT boot loader? To: mathezer@newera.ab.ca (Stephen Mathezer) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:10:49 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Mathezer" at Feb 27, 96 04:50:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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.