Haha cool I now have FreeBSD in the NTLDR on my laptop (along with W2K3) :D
Heres how to do it -

Since FreeBSD has no “rescue” option off the bootable (1st) CD you can use that unless you want to go and download the entire 2nd CD (screw that) so heres what you do.

You go get a linux rescue floppy of some sort, make sure it has the program “dd” on it and boot it. Enter “dd if=<he hex dump/partition fbsd is on> of=<somewhere> bs=512 count=1″. Yes youll need some knowledge of how linux stores hdd devices to do it. Mine was “dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/BOOTSECT.BSD bs=512 count=1″.

Copy it to a floppy and boot back to windows. Copy the BSD file into the C: directory. Right click on My Computer, go properties, go advanced, go startup and recovery, and you should see a section for setting the ntldr options. Edit it and in the [operating systems] file enter “C:<the BSD file>=”<whatever you want>”". For me it was “C:BOOTSECT.BSD=”FreeBSD”". Change the timeout if you want and viola FreeBSD in the NTLDR. Cool eh :D

Written on May 23rd, 2003 , Informative

Phwaor haha pointers are bitter sweet. Plagued me for 24 hours. Then my friend comes up with a solution after about 5 tries that actually works. Cool eh :)

BTW Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and Visual Studio .NET Perth launch was last friday (09/05) and Ill be posting a bitch about all the things I think they did wrong…but its turning out to be a lot longer than I thought it would be, so might not be up till like next week or something heh. Stay tuned folks (eh what folks no one reads this anyway:)…

Written on May 16th, 2003 , Serious

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