From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 19 07:36:32 2003 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 64AEB37B401 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2003 07:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4325043FB1 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2003 07:36:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1051194990.de3738@mired.org) Received: (qmail 28984 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2003 14:36:30 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 19 Apr 2003 14:36:30 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-inject, from uid 100); Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:36:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16033.24302.86227.85957@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:36:30 -0500 To: dick hoogendijk In-Reply-To: <20030419130934.GA3522@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20030419130934.GA3522@lothlorien.nagual.st> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.74 (Citation) cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: fbsd in bootmenu XP 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: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:36:32 -0000 In <20030419130934.GA3522@lothlorien.nagual.st>, dick hoogendijk 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. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.