David Green-Seed wrote:
> Here's my problem:
>
> at 10:21pm PST (Jan 19th 1998) I cvsupped world, rebuilt, installed the new
> boot blocks, and did a first-time install of an ELF kernel. Unfortunately,
> I'm
> dual-booting with windows 95 using fbsdboot.exe - which I just discovered
> does not work with an ELF kernel.
>
> Has anyone encountered this problem (and what did you do to fix it) or does
> anyone have any suggestions (other than getting rid of windows 95)? I've
> checked around - and the only thing that I can come up with is that NTLDR
> (the windows NT loader) will boot an elf FreeBSD using the new boot
> blocks...
> but I don't have NT.
>
> Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated.
The fbsdboot.exe program should probably be considered obsolete. It
should (in theory) be possible to use it to load /boot/loader, which
can then load the kernel, but there are various reasons this doesn't
work too well.
The standard approach would be to install the FreeBSD boot manager.
This displays a menu like
F1 DOS
F2 FreeBSD
every time the machine is rebooted. So, whether in FreeBSD or
Windows, you'd reboot to switch OSes.
To install this, there's a utility at
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot0inst-1.0.2.tar.gz
though you can also use sysinstall.
There are also various alternative boot managers, commercial and
otherwise. System Commander from V-Communications seems fairly
popular: though I wouldn't personally pay a $100 list price for
this kind of thing.
--
Robert Nordier
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