Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:55:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin McCarty <kmc@best.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot to FreeBSD 3.1 on wd1 from NTLDR on wd0? Message-ID: <199904192255.PAA21956@shell14.ba.best.com>
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I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 RELEASE from CD onto a second hard disk in a Dell Optiplex GXi, and I'm having trouble with the boot sequence. The first hard disk, a WD 8GB IDE, has NT4 on it with an msdos file system, using NTLDR to boot that as usual. I should be able to use NTLDR to boot either NT on the first disk or FreeBSD on the second, I think. I installed FreeBSD on a second 3GB WD disk, using the FDISK Compatibility option. I set the freebsd slice to be bootable in the fdisk step of sysinstall, took the default FreeBSD Boot Manager default to be installed on wd1. I didn't see a clearly distinguished option to format and install on wd1 but install the Boot Manager on wd0, however I figured NTLDR should let me use a boot sector from wd1. This ought to be possible somehow, I've done it on systems where the BSD partition is on the same disk as NTLDR. After the file systems were created and the distributions and packages were installed, I switched to VT4 and did this: # mkdir /nt # mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /nt # df Filesystem 512-byte blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted On fd0c 5607 2566 ... 50% / /dev/wd1s1a 95198 36236 ... 41% /mnt /dev/wd1s1f 5518076 613464 ... 12% /mnt/usr /dev/wd1s1e 95198 524 ... 1% /mnt/var /dev/wcd0c ... ... ... 100% /dist /dev/wd0s1 4192320 ... ... 64% /nt # dd if=/dev/rwd1s1a of=/nt/rwd1s1a.bsd bs=512 count=1 Is this the right place to copy from? Apparently not, because when I point NT's BOOT.INI to it with this entry C:\RWD1S1A.BSD="FreeBSD 3.1" the result is: "Boot Error", and nothing further. So what's wrong with this recipe, and how can I fix it? Kevin McCarty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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