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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!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!not-for-mail From: dippel@mathematik.uni-marburg.de (Oliver Dippel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from NT boot manager? Date: 21 Oct 1996 09:36:53 GMT Organization: Hochschulrechenzentrum der Universitaet Marburg Lines: 23 Message-ID: <54fg7l$4ia@surz03fi.HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE> References: <53tji4$925@bart.rogerswave.ca> <544or7$fcg@anorak.coverform.lan> <01bbbc4b$ea8ae1c0$27366d81@masscomp> NNTP-Posting-Host: sg1204.mathematik.uni-marburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Ernest C. Hymel (ehymel@utmb.edu) wrote: : > 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? : Sure you can put another bootmanager "in front" of the NT bootmanager. The NT bootmanager resides in the bootsector of the active primary partition. You can install a bootmanager like osbs (FreeBSD-CD:/tools/osbsbeta.exe). This works perfectly for me (with SCSI-only). This bootmanager (like the OS/2 bootmanager) is installed in the master bootrecord (first sector of the bootdisk). NT does not touch this sector. : Ernest Hymel : ehymel@utmb.edu Ciao, Oliver Dippel dippel@mabi.de