Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:58:43 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, Rico Secada <coolzone@it.dk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a XP disk to FreeBSD machine Message-ID: <200706172058.l5HKwYMs000717@smtpclu-4.eunet.yu> 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>
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:11:28 -0400 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> 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 <youshi10@u.washington.edu> 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
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