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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: Vijay Konkimalla <vjmrudula@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: using NT loader to boot fbsd Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 22:41:14 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 25 Message-ID: <33543C4A.7272@worldnet.att.net> References: <334BFF3F.7C5A@worldnet.att.net> <E8n8uA.386@slugvine.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: vjmrudula@worldnet.att.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.146.2.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39128 John Stark wrote: > > In article <334BFF3F.7C5A@worldnet.att.net>, > Vijay Konkimalla <vjmrudula@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > [deleted] > > Your problem is that, to use the NT boot menu, you need to patch the FreeBSD > boot sector to look for the FreeBSD partition on the second drive. It > expects to be called with the DL register containing the drive ID to load > from (0x81 for the second drive), but if invoked from a bootsect.xxx file > loaded by an NT loader on the first drive, DL will contain 0x80. > > There is a Web page explaining how do this at http://www.devious/com/freebsd/. > I followed these instructions and now have DOS, Windows 95 and FreeBSD 2.1.5 > on drive 0, and NT4 and FreeBSD 2.1.6 on drive 1, all selectable from the NT > boot menu in the DOS partition. (Not that I want two FreeBSD installations, > but I postponed moving everything to 2.1.6 as the 2.2 CD is due out soon.) > -- > John Stark (at home), Cambridge, UK | Thank you John, It works like charm. -- vijay vjmrudula@worldnet.att.net