Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:59:11 +0400 From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh.s@gmail.com> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: Joe Kraft <hishadow@netcabo.pt> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR Message-ID: <38b3f6e4050130235957c049c2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050130120618.GA21695@alzatex.com> References: <38b3f6e40501292247696b96b@mail.gmail.com> <38b3f6e4050129231132f8e743@mail.gmail.com> <41FCA314.3070602@netcabo.pt> <38b3f6e4050130033551e43818@mail.gmail.com> <20050130120618.GA21695@alzatex.com>
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> No, boot0 is just a normal file that is 512 bytes long. There is > nothing special about it. In it is a bootloader program that can be > used to boot FreeBSD, and if you run it during boot, it will read the > partition table and look for all OSes. I think it will modify the > partition table, though, marking the last OS you booted into, but that's > the program running doing that, the file itself is harmless. Ok. I must have used some other command then, which resulted in my first disk MBR getting over-written ... strange. :-/ By the way, does the fact that NTLDR is on my first disk, while FreeBSD (and hence its MBR boot0) is on my second disk complicate matters? I mean, you mention boot0 will modify my partition table to reflect which OS was booted last -- will it by any chance modify the partition table on the first disk and hence mess it? -- Rakhesh rax@rakhesh.com
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