Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:23:38 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: mac@cs.hmc.edu Subject: Re: Correct step for setting up MBR on a windows drive? Message-ID: <b7052e1e05062101232deeb68e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050621000413.GA297@turing.cs.hmc.edu> References: <20050621000413.GA297@turing.cs.hmc.edu>
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On 6/21/05, Mac Mason <mac@cs.hmc.edu> wrote:
> I've got a machine with FreeBSD on it. Recently, I added another drive,
> on which I put Windows. Given that I don't really trust the Windows
> install program with my MBR, I unplugged the FreeBSD drive during the
> install.
>=20
> Now, the FreeBSD bootloader can't load windows; if I unplug the FreeBSD
> drive again, windows boots up happily, but I don't much like the idea of
> un-plugging and re-plugging drives to make things work.
>=20
> The FreeBSD bootloader notes that there are two drives installed, but
> picking either one of them results in BSD booting up, not windows.
>=20
> How do I go about teaching the FreeBSD bootloader how to boot Windows?
>=20
> ("Replace it with grub" is a reasonable answer, but I'd rather not go to
> the trouble, if it's possible)
I am having exactly the same problem, but with FreeBSD and NetWare,
and am looking for a solution to it. I did not actually unplug the
drives but just disabled the secondary IDE controller in BIOS (where
FreeBSD was installed) before installing NetWare.
--=20
Dmitry
"We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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