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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:54:07 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        Nils Holland <nils@frozenfeelings.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot Problem
Message-ID:  <20000418235407.A3899@parish>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004190031590.699-100000@ilka.ncptiddische.net>; from nils@frozenfeelings.com on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 12:41:49AM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004190031590.699-100000@ilka.ncptiddische.net>

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On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 12:41:49AM +0200, Nils Holland wrote:
> I seem to have a boot problem which I will eplain in detail below. I hope
> that someone can help me.
> 
> Well, I have a computer that has Windows NT 4.0 Workstation installed on
> the hard disk connected to the primary IDE port as master (Disk0). The
> whole partition is dedicated to WinNT. Now there is another HD in that
> computer. It's connected to the secondary IDE port as master (Disk1?). On
> that HD I installed FreeBSD. During the installation I said that I wanted
> to use the FreeBSD boot manager to allow me to choose betwen the two
> operating systems. After the installation, however, the system restarted
> and WinNT took over control without the FreeBSD bootmanager ever showing
> up.

Personally, I use the NT boot manager to start FreeBSD. See
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN1776 for details of how to do
this. Note that because FreeBSD is on a different disk to NT you need
to use boot0.

HTH

> I then booted from a DOS-disk and used bootinst.exe from the FreeBSD
> /tools directory. When I tell it to write a boot sector to the first disk
> (the disk on which WinNT is installed) it seems to work, but when I
> re-boot the WinNT boot-loader takes over control againg without me ever
> seeing the FreeBSD bootmanager. The only thing I can do is the
> following: I can install the FreeBSD bootmanager on the 2nd HD (on which
> FreeBSD is installed) and then I can to to my BIOS and tell it to start
> from that drive. This works, but that way I can only boot FreeBSD, in
> order to get back to WinNT (well, I don't want to use it anyways, but
> there are others around here who want) I have to tell my BIOS again to
> boot from the NT-Disk.
> This is not very practical. I remember that once upon a time I used Linux
> with LILO on that 2nd HD of the computer and I could install LILO to the
> first HD. At boot time, LILO asked me whether to use Linux or NT. If I
> selected Linux, it booted it from the 2nd drive. When I selected NT, the
> NT bootloader popped up and started NT. Something like that should be
> possible with FreeBSD! I hope that someone can help me with this problem!
> 
> Greetings,
> Nils
> 
> 
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