Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:58:36 -0900 From: "Mark Weisman" <mark@mystic1.net> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Boot and MBR. Message-ID: <88EB08D16800D34EA145D7DD2AA44998E64E@minnie.outland>
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You are right, I have them setup originally under WinXP as partitions, then added FreeBSD to the second partition where it calls it a slice. Divided up the slice into the required folders. I have tested, and it is not cosmetic, in that when I select that menu item, the computer goes to the next row and stays indefinitely. I can put WinXP back on the computer if I have to, however, wouldn't that put the WinXP MBR on the box? I've gone in under fdisk and set the slice bootable, however nothing. I'm not sure how to install it now to just that slice. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Res Ipsa Loquitor, Mark-Nathaniel Weisman Site Master Mystic1.net -----Original Message----- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu]=20 Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:27 PM To: Mark Weisman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. >=20 > I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had > WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP > installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and=20 > had it take control of the MBR. I know that the other partition is=20 > still bootable if I can get a pointer to it, currently the boot menu=20 > shows it > as: > F!: ?? > F2: FreeBSD > How can I get that first menu choice to look at the installation on the > first partition as bootable? Making the machine a dual boot between the > two system? The fact that it displays ?? is only a cosmetic problem. Have you tried selecting F1 to see if it will boot the XP slice? =20 Mine does. Also, a side issue, in FreeBSD land, what you have is a disk with tw0 'slices' as apposed to partitions. Probably you have your FreeBSD slice divided up in to several 'partitions'. MS calls the primary divisions of a disk partitions, but in BSD UNIX land they are called slices. > The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my=20 > rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on=20 > these two would be awesome. Thanks. I have not been successfule with that sort of thing. Anyway, I=20 don't think just putting it in rc.conf would do the trick because=20 that just sets a bunch of variables in there. Then the stuff is actually run from rc (and some other places I think) using those=20 variable values set in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.. I think you might not want your startx to fire off until after you log in anyway. That would mean putting it in .login (if=20 you have a csh or tcsh shell) and that is what didn't work for me, though I didn't try many variations. But, someone else better weigh in on this. ////jerry >=20 > Res Ipsa Loquitor, > Mark-Nathaniel Weisman > Site Master > Mystic1.net >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to=20 > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 >=20
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