Bug 41423

Summary: Update FAQ: attrib command for windows dual boot
Product: Documentation Reporter: Scott Sewall <sewall>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Scott Sewall 2002-08-07 21:10:01 UTC 
      
Please update the following section: Section 9.10 How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?

For windows 2000 Server, the correct commands to modify the attributes for boot.ini are:

attrib -h -s c:\boot.ini

and

attrib +s +h c:\boot.ini

I'm not sure if the order of the arguments is important, but that's the order I used.

Otherwise the procedure works great for dual booting FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE and Windows 2000 Server.

The only attributes set are H and S.  The file is not marked readonly.

-- Scott

How-To-Repeat: 1) Install Windows 2000 Server

2) log in as Administrator

3) Start Command Prompt window

4) Enter command 'attrib -s -r c:\boot.ini'

The command fails.
Comment 1 scott 2002-08-07 23:26:02 UTC 
The error message from the attrib command is 'Not resetting hidden file'.
Comment 2 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-03-22 21:35:49 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

That section has been rewritten, and we don't talk about the attrib 
command any more.  Thanks for taking the time to improve FreeBSD.