Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:11:52 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: rax@rakhesh.com Cc: Joe Kraft <hishadow@netcabo.pt> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR Message-ID: <20050131101152.GA8619@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <38b3f6e4050130235957c049c2@mail.gmail.com> References: <38b3f6e40501292247696b96b@mail.gmail.com> <38b3f6e4050129231132f8e743@mail.gmail.com> <41FCA314.3070602@netcabo.pt> <38b3f6e4050130033551e43818@mail.gmail.com> <20050130120618.GA21695@alzatex.com> <38b3f6e4050130235957c049c2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:59:11AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > 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? > You can disable this behavior of boot0 when you install the MBR on the second disk using the "-o noupdate" argument to boot0cfg. > > -- > Rakhesh > rax@rakhesh.com -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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