Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:21:37 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> To: "'Joel Gudknecht'" <jgudknecht@marathonmultimedia.com>, "'freebsd-questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 4.9-RELEASE + XP Pro problem Message-ID: <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A210@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <7A601EA4F6472748A4B828E59222FF03D75FBE@SERVER_EMAIL>
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> 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. > > Went to reboot and bsd had taken over either the boot sector > or the mbr. > > Tried xp recovery console, fixmbr, fixboot, nothing worked, > bsd continues to boot up by default. > > 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. > > What I'm I doing wrong here? > I just did a dual boot setup with XP and 5.2. I chose none intentionally, installed FreeBSD, then as I was rebooting, put in my GAG disk and installed GAG as my boot loader. It found both my FreeBSD partition and my XP partitions. I set it up, and I can safely boot into either o/s fairly easily. Gag is available on sourceforge.
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