From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 15 03:36:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 E7B6316A41F for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:36:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C96843D53 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:36:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72B1962E5; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:36:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72253-05; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:36:09 -0600 (CST) Received: by makeworld.com (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 62ED56208; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:36:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2392B60FE; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:36:09 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <43A0E4A9.6050106@makeworld.com> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:36:09 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Falanga References: <43A0E32F.8080305@icehouse.net> In-Reply-To: <43A0E32F.8080305@icehouse.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.3.3 (20050822) at makeworld.com - FreeBSD:The Power To Serve Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD, need some questions answered X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: RacerX@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:36:14 -0000 Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to FreeBSD but not to UNIX. The guy who burned me the 6.0 > release iso's told me that during the install, FreeBSD would detect my > Windows XP drive but it didn't. I have two hard drives, one for FreeBSD > one for Windows. The FreeBSD drive is SATA and the Windows is PATA > (IDE, but I'm sure you all knew that). I've been reading through the > Handbook, but I don't see in there how to configure the bootloader to > boot Windows. I'd like very much to use the bootloader as I'm sick of > going into CMOS every time and changing the "first" drive in the system > so that I get the OS I want. Please help. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/ -- Best regards, Chris Forgive and remember.