Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:25:23 +0100 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager Message-ID: <1125318323.26759.3.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050829120339.24fc9fcd.dick@nagual.st> References: <4312C8A3.7010906@locolomo.org> <20050829120339.24fc9fcd.dick@nagual.st>
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On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:03, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:34:43 +0200 > Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote: > > > I have a PC with two hard drives, one (master) dedicated FreeBSD the > > other (slave) dedicated XP. The XP was preinstalled, and to avoid any > > confusion, I disconnected the disk while installing FreeBSD. > > > > Now, I'd like to configure the FreeBSD boot manager to dual boot. In the > > menu, I can choose FreeBSD or Disk 1, but choosing the latter does not > > boot XP. How do I postconfigure the boot manager? > > Windows, including XP, wants to boot off the C-drive (the first boot > device that is). So either you switch your drives OR you setup the BIOS > to boot of the SECOND hardrive first. That is not quite true. Windows Xp (&NT, 2k) can be on any partion. The boot loader need to be at the start of the C-Drive. There is a previous post regarding the problem at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=851242+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20050807.freebsd-questions Rob
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