Chain-loading bootloader from Win 2008

[NickC]

Has anyone tried chain-loading the freeBSD FreeBSD boot loader from a Win 2008 boot loader? I have done a similar thing in Debian as follows:

• Install Linux bootloader to /boot partition _not_ to MBR
• Boot to some sort of Linux Live with NTFS access (NTFS-3g) available - say Fedora 17
  

  my_windows_part=/dev/sda1
  my_boot_part=/dev/sda5
  mkdir /media/win
  mount $my_windows_part /media/win
  dd if=$my_boot_part of=/media/win/linux.bin bs=512 count=1

• Windows Recovery prompt
  

  bcdedit /create /d “Linux” /application BOOTSECTOR
  bcdedit /set {ID} device partition=c:
  bcdedit /set {ID}  path \linux.bin
  bcdedit /displayorder {ID} /addlast
  bcdedit /timeout 30

Is it possible to do the same thing in \freeBSD FreeBSD?

 

[tingo]

Doesn't the way described in the FreeBSD FAQ work?
Here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER

 

[NickC]

Doesn't the way described in the FreeBSD FAQ work?
Here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER

Yep, seen that, thanks tingo. But that was was written for Win 2003, Win 2008 doesn't have a boot.ini anymore. Maybe it can be adapted somehow.

Cheers,
Nick