Re: NT LOADER + Laptop

9/12/2002 1:46:00 AM, "Pookie" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I attempted to install FreeBSD on my laptop along side WinXP Home. I
>chose no FBSD boot loader. Reading the online documentation it says 
I
>can boot BSD from NT Loader. So I go in, mount my winxp
>partition(/mnt/WinXP). Then I go to /boot and do a "cp /boot/boot*
>/mnt/WinXP". That commands overwrites my MBR with the FBSD boot 
loader
>correct? 

Nope.  You need to read the documentation more carefully.  You *don't* 
want to write /boot/boot0 to your XP partition, as the online FAQ 
explains.  You want to write /boot/boot1 as a *file* on your XP partition.  
Then you can add 

[drive letter]:\[boot1 filename]="FreeBSD"

as a line in the WinXP boot.ini file.

Is your XP partition FAT or NTFS?  If the latter, last I knew, FBSD 
couldn't write to NTFS.  In that case, you need to write from FBSD to a 
floppy or FAT partition, then go back to XP and copy the file from 
floppy/FAT. 

How do I successfully get this working.
>
>Id appreciate it if someone was kind enough to help me out, command 
by
>command

The online FAQ does contain step-by-step instructions that I don't know 
how to improve on.  If after careful reading there's a specific item in 
those instructions that's not clear to you, please ask.

Jud





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