Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:21:24 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sam Jones <samjones1986@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Dual booting problems Message-ID: <200703011321.43142.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <63c8e94f0703011336l3b90c7b8r3b3ba31423aa2276@mail.gmail.com> References: <63c8e94f0703011336l3b90c7b8r3b3ba31423aa2276@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart2944511.KYbaczalfG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:36, Sam Jones said: > I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA > hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows > XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and > when the computer boots, it displays: > > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 1 > > When I press F5, FreeBSD loads and not Windows. I know Windows is > working because when I disconnect the first drive, Windows boots > from the second just fine. I've tried using boot0cfg to reload the > boot manager, but that doesn't help. The simplest thing to do would > be to specify that F5 boots Windows, but I can't find anything. > > Is this configuration even possible? Or does Windows just make it > impossible to boot from the second disk? You need to switch your drives around and setup accordingly. Windows=20 (at least in my experience) will not boot from anything but the first=20 drive. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart2944511.KYbaczalfG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBF51H2p5D0B1NlT4URAjpIAJ9qbxHgBgV+UX9L0suPz190MnBS0ACfanLz 6qVUGQZ+8Ydt+6A3UmmwZno= =QtAS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2944511.KYbaczalfG--
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