Bug 13341

Summary:	FAQ 8.7 addition - booting drive 1 from NT loader
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	robb <robb>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description robb 1999-08-24 07:00:01 UTC

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.

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
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).

Comment 1 chris freebsd_committer

1999-08-24 15:19:48 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc

Misfiled PR.

Comment 2 mark.ovens 2000-02-21 20:15:20 UTC

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

Comment 3 nik freebsd_committer

2000-04-30 23:06:10 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

FAQ has a section on booting FreeBSD from NT loader.  Thanks for 
the submission.