Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR
Rakhesh Sasidharan
rakhesh.s at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 23:59:12 PST 2005
> No, boot0 is just a normal file that is 512 bytes long. There is
> nothing special about it. In it is a bootloader program that can be
> used to boot FreeBSD, and if you run it during boot, it will read the
> partition table and look for all OSes. I think it will modify the
> partition table, though, marking the last OS you booted into, but that's
> the program running doing that, the file itself is harmless.
Ok. I must have used some other command then, which resulted in my
first disk MBR getting over-written ... strange. :-/
By the way, does the fact that NTLDR is on my first disk, while
FreeBSD (and hence its MBR boot0) is on my second disk complicate
matters? I mean, you mention boot0 will modify my partition table to
reflect which OS was booted last -- will it by any chance modify the
partition table on the first disk and hence mess it?
--
Rakhesh
rax at rakhesh.com
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list