Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:51:59 -0600 From: greg <gval@mts.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting Release 5.2 and XP Message-ID: <1075420318.743.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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I want to be able to dual boot into FreeBSD and Windows XP. Right now FreeBSD is booting just fine. Windows XP is on a FAT32 filesystem on the first primary partition of the second hard drive. The second hard drive is the secondary master. I am booting my system with the standard boot loader that came with 5.2 Release. It detects the windows partition on the second hard drive as DOS partition. When I hit F5 (it prompts me to hit F5 to boot the DOS partition), it sits there and does nothing. I have fomated the MBR on the second drive, so it is MSed. Previous to the FreeBSD install, I was dual booting Debian and the same Windows XP partition. I had to do some work configuring GRUB to get it to work. What worked was swapping HD0 and HD1 when I choose to boot XP. This would fool Windows XP into thinking it was booting off the first hard drive. Is there a way to change loader.conf to do this. I have looked at the loader.conf fig help, and did not see any thing that would obviously do this. Maybe there is another boot loader I could use that would allow me to fool Windows XP into thinking it is the first hard drive? I would use GRUB, but it does not support being installed on a UFS2 filesystem yet. I dual boot only for the games. -- greg <gval@mts.net>
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