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From: jok@stotze.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Jochen Knuth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I can install it but I can't boot
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 20:13:58 GMT
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Hi,
On Tue, 20 May 1997 14:40:15 -0700, Michael Shafae
<cadaver@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>I can't get my computer to boot into FreeBSD once I have it installed. I
>have two scsi disks in my computer. The first is dedicated to NT and the
>second is dedicated to FreeBSD.
>
>I start up with the boot floppy for FreeBSD and install FreeBSD. The
>installation goes with out a hitch. But then I come to a problem. I want
>to be able to dual boot with NT but I don't know how to tell the
>computer to boot off the second hard disk so that I can copy the
>bootsector to a file so that I can use the NT boot loader.
You could try a win32 utility called BootPart. It modifies the
Boot.ini file, which the NT boot loader uses to detect the systems
which you want to boot.
You can find it at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm
Hope that helps.
Jochen
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Jochen Knuth
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