Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:17:41 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Marty Landman <martster@gmail.com> Subject: Re: how to dual boot Message-ID: <200512161417.41218.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <70063950512161331u294280cdl8bd552be9426752c@mail.gmail.com> References: <70063950512161331u294280cdl8bd552be9426752c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 16 December 2005 01:31 pm, Marty Landman wrote: > I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP > sp1. First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP > on the remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can > get back to the FBSD installer by booting from the 5.3 CD but what do > I do to provide a choice of which to boot right on the HD? I use the ntldr to boot my dual boots. You just have to copy boot1 onto your c-drive and then add it to your boot.ini. You can do that from the system applet. I renamed boot1 to bootsect.bsd and my boot.ini is as follows: [boot loader] timeout=4 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINXP [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINXP="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /f c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" The line should be XP Professional but all I added was the FreeBSD. Ntldr lets you choose which one is primary and then, with a pop-down menu, easily change it to something else. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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