Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:21:41 +1000 From: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com> To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Boot, Boot manager Message-ID: <57416b300510052221h6eb2cf0bma7b74d37da89287b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4a40ab2e0a11940a5340a.20051005200648.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> References: <4a40ab2e0a11940a5340a.20051005200648.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com>
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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.
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