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From: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Dual Boot, Boot manager
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On 10/6/05, Joshua Lewis <jmlewis@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> I installed 5.4 on a second drive and I realize now the boot manager I
> installed is on the second drive and not loaded in the MBR of my Primary
> drive.
>
> Is there a way to load the FreeBSD boot manager onto my primary drive fro=
m
> within windows? Or do I have to reboot to the CD and load it from there?
>
> My fear is I am going to screw up my windows drive while in the FreeBSD
> installer. I was tring to avoid touching that drive from the installed
> becuae it is a new enviornment I am afraid I will make a mistake.

Well i'm not really sure what you mean, but if you installed freebsd on you=
r
second drive, and selected to load it's MBR, everything should be fine, and=
 i
don't think you should be worrying about anything.

Having said that if you would rather use the windows MBR, you need to modif=
y
the boot.ini file in windows to look on the second disk for freebsd.
You shouldn't have any problem on finding documentation for the
boot.ini syntax from google.