Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:23:05 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: greg <gval@mts.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP Message-ID: <20040130022305.4b1e5e37@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <1075420318.743.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1075420318.743.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:51:59 -0600
greg <gval@mts.net> wrote:
[..]
> I have fomated the MBR on the second drive, so it is MSed.
So it boots if you set the BIOS to boot from the first drive, right ?
> Previous to the FreeBSD install, I was dual booting Debian and the same
> Windows XP partition. I had to do some work configuring GRUB to get it
> to work. What worked was swapping HD0 and HD1 when I choose to boot XP.
> This would fool Windows XP into thinking it was booting off the first
> hard drive.
Take a look on the Recovery console by booting from the XP CD. It's the
infamous ntdlr thing. It is supposed to be fixable without reinstalling
XP.
> Is there a way to change loader.conf to do this. I have looked at the
> loader.conf fig help, and did not see any thing that would obviously do
> this.
No chance AFAIK.
> Maybe there is another boot loader I could use that would allow me to
> fool Windows XP into thinking it is the first hard drive?
>
> I would use GRUB, but it does not support being installed on a UFS2
> filesystem yet.
Try something like:
Replace in /boot/grub/grub.conf something like:
------------------------------------------------------
title BSD/UN*X FreeBSD 5.1 (UFS2)
root (hd1,0,a)
kernel /boot/loader
------------------------------------------------------
to:
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title BSD/UN*X FreeBSD 5.1 (UFS2)
root (hd1,0,a)
chainloader +1
------------------------------------------------------
It is supposed to work. If not, post on rofug@rofug.ro asking about how
to do it.
--
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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