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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news.he.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.communique.net!communique!not-for-mail From: Jim King <jim@ase.dowjones.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD and NT: Dual Boot? Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 09:02:50 -0500 Organization: Dow Jones Lines: 17 Message-ID: <339D5E8A.7CB771BB@ase.dowjones.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970603080205.7978A-100000@saserver.sa.bom.gov.au> <3397739E.6857@akirapc.com> <3396CDAF.41C4@eos.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jim.ase.dowjones.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42692 > Okay, I'm not following the directions right. . . but I want BSD > to be my primary OS for principal's sake if for no other reason. I > loaded FreeBSD on my primary SCSI disk, and then I powered that one off > and loaded NT on my secondary SCSI disk. Now I wish to teach Boot Easy > to load one disk, or the other, but it's not very cooperative. I tried > loading Boot Easy onto the NT disk's boot sector, but it didn't seem to > help at all, and it didn't seem to want to load NT anyhow. I'm not sure you can do that. You CAN use NT's boot manager to switch back and forth between NT and FreeBSD. I have a machine setup with NT, Win95, and FreeBSD 2.2, with FreeBSD as the default boot choice. I believe there's a page in the handbook that describes how to use 'dd' to create the FreeBSD boot sector file that the NT boot manager needs. Jim