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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:09:26 -0800
From:      gabriel <normal1.lists@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBsdBeni <freebsdbeni@spymac.com>
Cc:        Irvin Piraman <ippiraman@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Dual booting w/ two disks
Message-ID:  <efb8582050124120959ff32d4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200501242101.39573.freebsdbeni@spymac.com>
References:  <efb858205012401271309a890@mail.gmail.com> <ee2dc79c05012402212f49da0@mail.gmail.com> <200501242101.39573.freebsdbeni@spymac.com>

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Okay cool, I'll try those when I get home. I think the main issue with
me is just finding the actual partition on the second disk to boot
windows because I dont know which is it.

Thanks!

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:01:39 +0100, FreeBsdBeni <freebsdbeni@spymac.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:27:45 -0800, gabriel <normal1.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to dual boot FreeBSD and Windows XP with two different
> > > disks, I have manged to get FreeBSD running and installed the boot
> > > manager and grub on it.
> > >
> > > When I boot into windows, I get some sort of boot loader error and it
> > > halts.
> > >
> > > Here's my menu.lst:
> 
> I have Grub booting just from 1 disk, not 2, but with 4 different partitions.
> Here's my menu.lst as installed by Suse 9.2. I just moved the FreeBSD lines up
> to the first place ;-). The lines to boot FreeBSD from the Linux Grub version
> I found with a "info grub" under Suse. There is a chapter on booting other
> OS'es. But it boots Windows XP, FreeBSD and Suse without any problem here.
> 
> color white/blue black/light-gray
> default 0
> timeout 8
> gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message
> 
> ###Added by Beni ###
> title FreeBSD
>    root (hd0,a)
>    kernel /boot/loader 
>    boot
> 
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
> title SUSE LINUX 9.2
>    kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x31a selinux=0
> splash=verbose resume=/dev/hda6 desktop elevator=as showopts
>    initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd
> 
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
> title Windows XP
>    root (hd0,0)
>    chainloader +1
> 
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
> title Diskette
>    root (fd0)
>    chainloader +1
> 
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
> title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 9.2
>    kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off
> acpi=off vga=normal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0  3
>    initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd
> 
> --
> FreeBsdBeni.
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