Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:12:39 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with dual disk/ dual boot installation Message-ID: <20071201061239.287d0db2@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20071130175633.GA1244@marco.fz-rossendorf.de> References: <20071130175633.GA1244@marco.fz-rossendorf.de>
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:56:34 +0100 Joerg van den Hoff <j.van_den_hoff@fzd.de> wrote: > dear list, > > today I've tried a very first installation of 6.2 on the > second disk of an i86 machine which runs windows xp > professional 2002 service pack 2 on disk one. > > initially, I erroneously did _not_ select installation of > the boot manager on the first disk (were windows resides), > but only on the second (the BSD one). > > after the intallation was completed without any apparent > problems I noted my mistake (well, the machine was booting > windows ...) That setup sounds OK if you set the bios to boot the second drive, instead of the first. The FreeBSD boot-manager is very basic, it can only boot a local partition or chainload another drive, which is why you often need a copy on each disk. In your case Windows will chainload directly, since you have a standard MBR on the first drive. Your problem is that the bios is not booting into the drive with manager on it.
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