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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from NT boot manager?
Date: 20 Oct 1996 17:24:44 +0100
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In article <01bbbc4b$ea8ae1c0$27366d81@masscomp>,
"Ernest C. Hymel" <ehymel@utmb.edu> writes:
>> NTs manager is either brain-dead or badly documented. I couldn't get
>> it to boot FreeBSD. You can always install another boot manager in
>> front of NTs.
:
: Really? Like what? I've tried booteasy (no luck at all) and osbs (says no
: hard disks present, probably cuz I have all scsi) to no avail. Does FreeBSD
: have a boot manager that I can setup at install time?
I've recently (since my last post here) read an article explaining how to
make NT boot FreeBSD. It involves dd'ing the start of the FreeBSD boot
disk into a file on the NT partition and pointing boot.ini at it. Have
a look using dejanews if you don't read this whole group.
OS-BS works for me, and FreeBSD also has FBSDBOOT.EXE although it's not
very sophisticated.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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