From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 09:29:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 893FD16A4CE for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:29:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dm3cn8.bell.ca (dm3cn8.bell.ca [206.47.0.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389FA43D1D for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:29:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from christopher.hollow@cgi.com) Received: from 142.122.115.62dm3cn8.bell.ca with ESMTP (Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay (MMS v5.0)); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:29:04 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: D4A4E604-913A-4A1B-8C07-2866D92AD410 Received: from cgi.com ([142.122.30.145]) by bt5c69.on.bell.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 BESI_Messaging_7 Apr 29 2002 13:22:02) with ESMTP id HTE8KG00.29Y; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:29:04 -0500 Message-ID: <403643A0.40305@cgi.com> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:28:00 -0500 From: "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jud References: <200402201513.i1KFDab10175@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <1077297615.20387.181381564@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1077297615.20387.181381564@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-WSS-ID: 6C289C6A155286-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Jerry McAllister cc: Joel Gudknecht cc: 'freebsd-questions' Subject: Re: 4.9-RELEASE + XP Pro problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:29:10 -0000 >>Just make sure your XP is fully installed first and boots OK >>Then install FreeBSD and select the MBR (not 'none' and not 'standard') > > [snip] > > Actually, you should choose to install a standard MBR and *not* to use > the FreeBSD boot loader in order to accomplish what you describe Why not choose to use the Boot Loader? Won't it then load the F1/F2 boot menu allowing the user to choose which OS they want to boot? That's the way I have my 4.8/W2K box config'd. HTH, Christopher Hollow Jud wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:13:35 -0500 (EST), "Jerry McAllister" > said: > >>>Hello All, >>> >>>I'm having a hell of a time getting XP Pro and 4.9 on the same drive. >>>I've tried various ways to get them to co-exist to no avail. >>>Here's what I'm trying to accomplish; >>> >>>30 GB HD total >>> >>>First 24 GB = XP >>> >>>Last 6 GB = 4.9 >>> >>>Installed XP first, then 4.9, said NONE at the boot menu during install. >> >>There is your problem right there. >>You should have selected the full MBR. >>Then everything would have fallen in place with none of that >>other fixboot stuff at all. >> >>Just make sure your XP is fully installed first and boots OK >>Then install FreeBSD and select the MBR (not 'none' and not 'standard') > > [snip] > > Actually, you should choose to install a standard MBR and *not* to use > the FreeBSD boot loader in order to accomplish what you describe below. > > >>>What I want is to have the nt boot loader give the choice to boot into >>>bsd by using the boot1 -> bootsect.bsd method in boot.ini. > > > Read the following FAQ carefully. If you try it and are unsuccessful, > come on back here and let us know what happened. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER> > > Jud > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >