Bug 13207

send-pr(1) got the Originators e-mail address wrong. Should be
mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org

>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Originator:     Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
>Organization:   
>Confidential:   no ] (one line)>
>Synopsis:       Update to the FAQ
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Category:       docs
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386
>Class:          change-request
>Environment: 

	

>Description: 

New diff for DocBook FAQ



>How-To-Repeat: 

	

>Fix: 
	

*** book.sgml.orig	Mon Sep  6 22:16:42 1999
--- book.sgml	Thu Sep  9 00:50:00 1999
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*** 3471,3476 ****
--- 3471,3479 ----
  <qandaentry><question>
  <para>How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?</para></question><answer>
  
+ <para>The procedure is slightly different for 2.2.x and 3.x (with the
+ 3-stage boot) systems.</para>
+ 
  <para>The general idea is that you copy the first sector of your
  native root FreeBSD partition into a file in the DOS/NT
  partition.  Assuming you name that file something like
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*** 3489,3499 ****
        </literallayout>
  </para>
    
! <para>This procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD, or whatever
! have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions on the
! <emphasis remap=bf>same</emphasis> disk.  In my case DOS &amp; NT are in the first fdisk
! partition and FreeBSD is in the second.  I also installed FreeBSD
! to boot from its native partition, <emphasis remap=bf>not</emphasis> the disk MBR.</para>
    
  <para>Mount a DOS-formatted floppy (if you've converted to NTFS) or the
  FAT partition, under, say, <filename>/mnt</filename>.</para>
--- 3492,3503 ----
        </literallayout>
  </para>
    
! <para>For 2.2.x systems this procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD,
! or whatever have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions
! on the <emphasis remap=bf>same</emphasis> disk.  In my case DOS &amp;
! NT are in the first fdisk partition and FreeBSD is in the second.  I also
! installed FreeBSD to boot from its native partition,
! <emphasis remap=bf>not</emphasis> the disk MBR.</para>
    
  <para>Mount a DOS-formatted floppy (if you've converted to NTFS) or the
  FAT partition, under, say, <filename>/mnt</filename>.</para>
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*** 3525,3530 ****
--- 3529,3543 ----
  ``<emphasis remap=tt>fdisk</emphasis>'' command after you reconfigure them to boot from their
  native partitions.</para>
    
+ <para>For 3.x systems the procedure is somewhat simpler.</para>
+ 
+ <para>If FreeBSD is installed on the <emphasis remap=bf>same</emphasis>
+ disk as the NT boot partition copy <filename>/boot/boot1</filename>
+ to <filename>C:\BOOTSECT.BSD</filename> or, if FreeBSD is installed on a
+ <emphasis remap=bf>different</emphasis> disk, copy
+ <filename>/boot/boot0</filename> to <filename>C:\BOOTSECT.BSD</filename>.
+ Then edit the <filename>C:\BOOT.INI</filename> file as described above.</para>
+ 
  </answer></qandaentry>
  
  <qandaentry><question>

Comment 3 nik 1999-09-26 01:02:16 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed, thanks.