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Subject: FAQ 8.7 addition - booting drive 1 from NT loader
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>Number:         13341
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       FAQ 8.7 addition - booting drive 1 from NT loader
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 23 23:00:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Sun Apr 30 15:06:10 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Sun Apr 30 15:06:26 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Rob Brady
>Release:        3.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
I have been booting freebsd from my second drive for quite a while now, but 
I find it annoying having to run through the freebsd boot manager prompt, 
then the windows NT prompt. To resolve this I created bootd1.bin (from 
bootd1.asm, a nasm program) which will boot drive 1. So as an addendum to 
FAQ 8.7 "How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD? I would like to add
the fix.

>How-To-Repeat:
Have a job that requires you to use Windows/NT most of the time.
Install Windows/NT on wd0, install FreeBSD on wd1. Install the boot
manager (you have to).

>Fix:
If you are booting FreeBSD from drive 1 you have installed the boot manager 
on both drives. In order to boot FreeBSD from the NT loader, copy bootd1.bin 
to your C:\ directory. Do an edit the boot.ini file as described in FAQ 8.7
above, adding instead C:\BOOTD1.BIN="FreeBSD". Now do an fdisk /mbr from
DOS to restore your boot sector. When you boot up and choose "FreeBSD" from
the prompt disk 1 will boot putting you into the boot manager there. 

When I have some free time later I will add a utility to modify the boot
sector of disk 1 to use the straight boot loader instead of the boot manager.

The most up to date versions of these files will be available at
www.datatone.com/~robb/bootd1.asm and www.datatone.com/~robb/bootd.bin




>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: chris 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Aug 24 07:19:48 PDT 1999 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Misfiled PR. 

From: Mark Ovens <mark.ovens@uk.radan.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, robb@datatone.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/13341: FAQ 8.7 addition - booting drive 1 from NT loader
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:15:20 +0000

 I think that this PR is now obsolete as this section of the FAQ already
 includes details of booting FreeBSD from the NT loader when it is on a
 different disk.
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/book.html#AEN1778
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: nik 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 30 15:06:10 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
FAQ has a section on booting FreeBSD from NT loader.  Thanks for 
the submission. 
>Unformatted:
