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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Boot Managing NT & FreeBSD
Date: 10 Dec 1996 05:37:23 -0000
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In article <32AC4B9D.A3C@worldnet.att.net>,
Christopher Patterson <imagery@worldnet.att.net> writes:
: Anybody out there ever try to get NT and FreeBSD to cooexist on the
: same machine? Looking for some reccommendations on how to handle the
: boot manager: use NT's or FreeBSDs? (NT was on the machine first, and
: it's boot manager is presently installed in the boot partition.)
I don't thing there's any way not to have NTs boot manager. If you want
to boot FreeBSD using it, dump the first 512 bytes of your freebsd partition
into a file (say C:\FREEBSD.INI) and put a line
C:\FREEBSD.INI="Boot FreeBSD"
in C:\BOOT.INI. Works a treat. NT loads and executes the file. FreeBSD
doesn't know it hasn't actually been read from disk and continues as if
you loaded the primary boot strap normally.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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