Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:05:23 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Mac Mason <mac@cs.hmc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Correct step for setting up MBR on a windows drive? Message-ID: <42B7E663.6070606@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050621000413.GA297@turing.cs.hmc.edu> References: <20050621000413.GA297@turing.cs.hmc.edu>
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Mac Mason 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. > >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. > > You need to write the FreeBSD loader onto your windows disk. I posted instructions about how to do that yesterday. --Alex
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