Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:36:30 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1051194990.de3738@mired.org> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fbsd in bootmenu XP Message-ID: <16033.24302.86227.85957@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20030419130934.GA3522@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20030419130934.GA3522@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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In <20030419130934.GA3522@lothlorien.nagual.st>, dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> typed: > I've two harddisks. On the first is win-XP on the second FreeBSD-4.8. > Both drives have a MBR made by boot0cfg. That's not as convenient as it > could (should) be. It would be nicer to have FreeBSD (on the second > harddisk) booted from within the XP-bootmenu. Can anybody explain what I > have to do to get the right "file" which I can put into the XP-bootmenu? I misread the problem, and answered the wrong one. I'll leave that here anyway. To get things to boot with just one level of menu, you need to install a standard MBR on disk 1. Doing "fdisk -B /dev/ad1" in FreeBSD should do it. I can't help with getting FreeBSD to boot from the XP boot menu. I've seen instructions for doing it with the NT boot menu. You might try googling for "FreeBSD XP NT boot" to see if you can turn those up. Personally, I use grub on my multi-boot systems. I'd be happy to help you get that set up to multiboot if you don't want to use the the FreeBSD boot loader. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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