Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:00:13 -0500 From: "Hyunseog Ryu @ Norlight" <hyun@staff.norlight.net> To: "'Adam'" <blueeskimo@gmx.net>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Problems setting up dual-boot Message-ID: <005d01c30b65$4c4cf460$1501a8c0@hyun> In-Reply-To: <1051291685.76975.21.camel@jake>
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Install w2k on hd0 first, but leave a little bit of room.=20 Then install fbsd on hd0 and hd2. You can install / partition on hd0, and rest of partitions to hd2. O.k. I'm done with my sub, so I can type with two hands. If I were you, I will install W2K on hd0 with 1GB free. Then install FreeBSD with following options. / (root) partition hd0 512MB swap partition hd0 512MB /usr hd2 2GB or larger if you run CVS for source/kernel update /usr/local hd2 1GB or whatever you like /var hd2 1GB log file and temp files /home hd2 rest of harddisk space In this case, bootmanager will not have a problem to recognize both W2K = and FBSD,=20 And system performance will be a little better, I believe. Thumbs of rule is putting boot partition on same physical disk.=20 There might be some other ways, but this will be good for start. I hope you don't need to spend whole this weekend to figure this out.=20 Hyun =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D Hyunseog Ryu=20 Senior Network Engineer, Applications Engineering Norlight Telecommunications 275 North Corporate Drive Brookfield, WI 53045 U.S.A. phone: +1-262-792-7965 fax: +1-262-792-7733 e-mail: hryu@norlight.com or hyun@staff.norlight.net -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Adam Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:28 PM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems setting up dual-boot I've tried about 18 different ways to get my dual-boot working, but it just refuses to give me the option to choose between OS's. Here's my setup: hd0: Windows 2000 hd2: FreeBSD 5.0 During install, I specified to install the FreeBSD Boot Manager on hd2. However, the boot manager does not detect the Windows 2000 partition, and jumps right in to running FreeBSD. I then tried running /stand/sysinstall to do a post-install fdisk to add the boot manager to hd0. The idea here was to boot to hd0, select Win2k, or load up the boot manager on hd2 and proceed. However, this setup just jumps right into Win2k without any options. I've been all over http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.h= tml #BOOTMGR, but I'm afraid that I'm just about out of ideas. The = terminology is a bit foreign to me, so following the instructions is a bit = difficult. Someone suggested modifying the Windows boot.ini file to do it, but I'm not really sure how to do that either. I'm almost to the point of just reinstalling from scratch to get this working. However, before I do that, I'd like to see if someone can offer some advice. I'm lost at the moment, so any extra info would surely be helpful. Thanks, --=20 Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
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