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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-in.communique.net!tetsuo.communique.net!usenet From: Jim King <jim@ase.telerate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from NT boot manager? Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 16:55:42 -0500 Organization: Communique Inc., New Orleans Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3267FCDE.5766@ase.telerate.com> References: <53tji4$925@bart.rogerswave.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: jimk.ase.telerate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@rogerswave.ca> > Does anybody know if it's possible to boot FreeBSD from the NT > boot manager? Currently, I am booting FreeBSD from a floppy disk, but > it'd be great if I could put it on my boot manager menu. Yep. Use dd(1) under FreeBSD to write the boot sector of your FreeBSD partition to a file (sorry, I can't remember the details on how to do this). Once you've done that get that file onto your NT boot drive; I stuck mine in as c:\bootsect.bsd. Edit c:\boot.ini (it's normally hidden, so you'll need to un-hide un-sys it; you can leave it that way if you want). Add a line like: c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD 2.1.5" under the "[operating systems]" section of boot.ini. One of my PC's is set up to boot DOS 6.22, NT 4.0, and FreeBSD 2.1.5 using the NT boot manager. Jim