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From: rbt@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NT & FreeBSD dual boot ?
Date: 16 Jul 1996 08:59:17 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <q4w8VDAD5o6xEwL1@loddon.demon.co.uk>,
JSB <stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm thinking about moving my system to NT from WfW311 and would like to
> if anyone has a dual boot solution for this. If so, can you share how
> to did this and whether there are any gotcha's.
Did you looked at the FAQ ?
7.6. How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?
The general idea is that one copies the first sector of your native root
Linux or FreeBSD partition into a file in the DOS/NT
partition. Assuming one names that file something like c:\bootsect.lnx
or c:\bootsect.bsd (inspired by c:\bootsect.dos) one can then edit the
c:\boot.ini file to come up with something like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows NT"
C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux"
C:\BOOTSECT.BSD="FreeBSD"
C:\="DOS"
This procedure assumes that DOS, NT, Linux, FreeBSD, or whatever have been
installed into their respective fdisk partitions
on the same disk. In my case DOS & NT are in the first fdisk partition,
Linux in the second, and FreeBSD in the third. I also
installed Linux and FreeBSD to boot from their native partitions, not the
disk MBR, and without delay.
[ look at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/freebsd-faq.html ]
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TIS -=- Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr
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