From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 09:45:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC4816A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:45:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com [192.25.240.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35AD43FB1 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:45:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from relcos2.cos.agilent.com (relcos2.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.237]) by msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C37562F; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:45:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by relcos2.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3BAD1C; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:45:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id JAA05542; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:45:30 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200310291745.JAA05542@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: Sergey Matveychuk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:29:01 +0300." <3F9FF8DD.7040100@ciam.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.7) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:45:29 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Darryl Okahata List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:45:32 -0000 Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > > Don't use chainloader with FreeBSD. Use 'kernel /boot/loader' instead. > > This is documented in the GRUB info doc. Again, I have set this exact > > system up with redhat on the first disk and it works perfectly. > > Grub do not supporting UFS2. So only way to boot -current is chainloader. Boot -current using the Windows XP bootloader. Unfortunately, I don't know of a single site with correct/complete information, but here are two pages to get you started (BACKUP your Windows partition before using the information in the following): http://bsdatwork.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=3 (Also read the OpenBSD section for additional WinXP info.) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.