Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:58:50 -0700 From: "Paredes Sánchez Martín A." <MPAREDES@telmex.com> To: "dick hoogendijk" <dick@nagual.st> Cc: "BSD." <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: fbsd in bootmenu XP Message-ID: <35BC9957B8699C42AB3A665E3C5656556CAD56@tmxmailhmo1.intranet.telmex.com>
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Hi: If your BIOS allow you to boot from the second disk, try that first. First, you should know that I don kwon much about FreeBSD, but the last week I make a test (an experiment) to have 3 OS in my pc : Win95 Fat23 NT ws NTFS FreeBSD All in one disk, one of my experiment make me do a "fdisk /mbr" from win95 witch erase the bootloader of freebsd. This says to me that the loader of FreeBSD is in the MBR (master boot record) of the disk, not in the boot sector of the partition(ms-dos)/slice(FreeBSD) like NT o Win9X. Then I boot from a floppy and run fdisk to activate the partition with NT, and the boot loader of NT still there (because is in the boot sector). I turn off the pc and boot from floppy and activate the win95 with fdisk, reboot the pc and boot win95 normal, then in fdisk I activate the FreeBSD partition and reinit the pc and I get FreeBSD running. Now I know that the loader of FreeBSD is better than NT because is in the MBR. In the cd of installation came a tool for ms-dos called bootinst.exe (in the directory TOOLS) witch reinstall the boot loader of FreeBSD. After I run it I get: F1 ??? F2 ??? F3 FreeBSD I don't kwon if this utility works for 2 hard disk, try it (you can see the code if you need). But be careful, you are playing with you MBR. When you install FreeBSD, you install it in the second drive or you move it to the second drive when you install XP? -HTH maps -----Original Message----- From: dick hoogendijk [SMTP:dick@nagual.st] Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 6:10 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: fbsd in bootmenu XP I've two harddisks. On the first is win-XP on the second FreeBSD-4.8. Both drives have a MBR made by boot0cfg. That's not as convenient as it could (should) be. It would be nicer to have FreeBSD (on the second harddisk) booted from within the XP-bootmenu. Can anybody explain what I have to do to get the right "file" which I can put into the XP-bootmenu? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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