Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:01:41 -0800 From: "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com> To: "'Benjamin Sher'" <delphi123@zebra.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! Message-ID: <01c901c64c72$433d4770$6501a8c0@workdog> In-Reply-To: <441F1CB1.3000807@zebra.net>
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > Benjamin Sher > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:21 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! > > > Dear friends: > > I decided to go out and buy the latest issue of Linux Format with the > FreeBSD 6 CD. I am very glad I did. FreeBSD is tough to install, but > after spending several hours I finally succeeded in doing a perfect > installation. ONE BIG PROBLEM: When I removed the CD and > rebooted, I got > into my Windows XP (I have two separate disks, one for > Windows, one of > FreeBSD). There was no way to get into FreeBSD. Naturally, I > went into > my BIOS and changed the boot sequence from CD to Hard Drive. > That only > caused my system to boot into Windows XP. > > I read the instructions about the FreeBSD Boot Manager. It > said clearly > that it should allow switching from one OS to another. But I > did not see > any configuration for that. How, may I ask, do I do this while > installing FreeBSD? How do I change this configuration to > guarantee that > all my work won't go down the toilet and that when I reboot, > I will see > Lilo or whatever as a boot manager that will allow me to > select either > FreeBSD or Windows? > > I am looking forward to solving this and then to actually > seeing FreeBSD > for the first time. > > Thank you so much in advance. > > Benjamin Welcome to FreeBSD! Well, all is not lost. There are a couple possible errors you could have made, but since XP is booting, my guess is that you installed FreeBSD correctly on ad1 and you (hopefully) put the FreeBSD boot loader onto the MBR of that disk. If so, you have a couple options: 1. Use the NT boot loader (see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTL OADER ) on ad0. 2. Install the FreeBSD boot loader on ad0. To do this, boot the FreeBSD install CD again and choose FixIt mode. Get a shell going. Use boot0cfg to install the loader. Check the syntax in the man pages (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi), but I think it is: #boot0cfg -Bv -d 0x80 -m 0x1 -s 5 ad0 If somehow you failed to get the FreeBSD boot loader onto ad1, then you'll have to use boot0cfg to fix that. Its syntax will be something like: #boot0cfg -Bv -d 0x81 -m 0x1 -s 1 ad1 You do have a backup of your XP disk, don't you? Errors using boot0cfg can cause your system to be quite messed up! Double check your syntax!!! Good luck! -gayn Bristol Systems Inc. 714/532-6776 www.bristolsystems.com
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