From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 17 20:58:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9082216A41F for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:58:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlecic@EUnet.yu) Received: from smtpclu-4.eunet.yu (smtpclu-4.eunet.yu [194.247.192.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF2B13C46C for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:58:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlecic@EUnet.yu) Received: from nyx.localhost (adsl-210-102.eunet.yu [213.198.210.102]) by smtpclu-4.eunet.yu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l5HKwYMs000717; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:58:35 +0200 Message-Id: <200706172058.l5HKwYMs000717@smtpclu-4.eunet.yu> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:58:43 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic To: Jerry McAllister In-Reply-To: <20070617201128.GC5036@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20070617175349.9debf85a.coolzone@it.dk> <46755FE4.3000204@u.washington.edu> <200706172001.l5HK17sU030505@smtpclu-6.eunet.yu> <20070617201128.GC5036@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE X-Face: pbl6-.[$G'Fi(Ogs2xlXP-V6{3||$Y[LOYs&~GJoikj'cVjcFC[V7du;;0~6nO= [Vi2?uU1Pq~,=Adj@,T:|"`$AF~il]J.Nz#2pU',Y7.{B;m/?{#sO^Dvo$rnmY6] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-EUNET-AVAS-Milter-Version: 2.0.0 X-AVAS-Virus-Status: clean X-AVAS-Spamd-Symbols: BAYES_50,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY,URIBL_BLACK X-AVAS-Spam-Score: 3.0 X-AVAS-Spam-Level: xxxxxx Cc: Jerry McAllister , Garrett Cooper , Rico Secada , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a XP disk to FreeBSD machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:58:42 -0000 On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:11:28 -0400 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:01:16PM +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote: >=20 > > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:23:00 -0700 > > Garrett Cooper wrote: > >=20 > > > Rico Secada wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > I have another HD which used to be in the same box running XP. > > > > I set this drive to slave and installed it into the box in > > > > order to dualboot.=20 > > > > [...] > > > > =20 > > > 1. All windows disks must be primary if you're going to boot off > > > of them -- sorry, it's a stupid requirement that M$ setup a long > > > time > >=20 > > What do you mean? I think he asked about slave (primary I suppose). > > I ask this because ... > >=20 > > > 3. You'll have to setup the boot manager on the windows disk. > >=20 > > ... "windows" can normally boot from slave position without > > bootloader, (in some cases with help of 'boot.ini' and > > ntldr/ntdetect.com, but AFAIK only if booting is impossible even > > when ad1 (D) is selected in BIOS as the first boot choice). >=20 > HE is trying to dual boot the machine. He needs something on that > second disk that the MBR on the first disk can transfer control to. > That something is the MBR on the second disk. That's the way it > works. Yes :) I said that it's _possible_ to keep the second disk stay untouched (as it remained after xp installation). I replied because (1)+(3) of Garrett's e-mail implied (maybe, that's why I asked him a question) that xp cannot start from the second disk without _separate_ bootloader installed _there_ from the outside, which is not true. My statement doesn't say anything about contents of the first disk and doesn't negate any of the options you proposed. I did add two things: (a) a proposition to check ad1 separately -- doesn't hurt; (b) a possible help if xp cannot orientate itself. Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87