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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!worldnet.att.net!cbgw2.lucent.com!nntphub.cb.lucent.com!not-for-mail From: jra@noname.nowhere.com (Jeff Abramson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.1,Win95 and Win NT Date: 5 Jun 1997 21:04:03 GMT Organization: Lucent Technologies Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5n79k3$bav@nntpb.cb.lucent.com> References: <01bc713e$f6e75cc0$f3937dc2@ns.indigo.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: poohbear.cvu.lucent.com Summary: BootPart Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42469 In article <01bc713e$f6e75cc0$f3937dc2@ns.indigo.ie>, Ken Smith <merlyn@indigo.ie> wrote: >Anyone know how to run BSD directly from the NT Bootloader ? I had it >working linux but FreeBSD is different. I created a bootsect.bsd using the >dd command but somehow I wouldn't work, I'm using an entire 1.6 >drive(Secondary Slave IDE) for my BSD file system which works fine from >it's own boot manager. I want to fdisk /mbr to remove the boot manager and >add it to the boot loader. > >Any help would be of good help, >Thanks in Advance, >Ken Smith, >merlyn@indigo.ie I used a tool called BootPart available from http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm to setup the WindowsNT bootloader to deal with the following configuration: Windows95 on IDE disk 0 WindowsNT on IDE disk 1 Linux on IDE disk 2 FreeBSD on SCSI disk 0 When booting linux, I chain to a lilo configuration that lets me select what kernel/configuration to boot. The other configurations boot their respective operating system more directly. The tool is well documented and easy to use. As I recall, the technique with FreeBSD is to tell the installation not to touch any Master Boot Records. -- jeffry r. abramson http://poohbear.cvu.lucent.com/~jra/ lucent technologies email: jabramson@lucent.com room 2k-054 480 red hill road phone: (732) 615-5340 middletown, nj 07748 facsimile: (732) 615-2672