From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 20:53:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04B6106564A for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:53:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@jerrymc.net) Received: from jerrymc.net (jerrymc.net [75.75.214.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629EB8FC14 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:53:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jerrymc.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jerrymc.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q5LKrO9P007460; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:53:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@jerrymc.net) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by jerrymc.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q5LKrNkK007459; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:53:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:53:23 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net Message-ID: <20120621205323.GA7445@jerrymc.net> References: <20120621095919.CLF58658@ms5.mc.surewest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <20120621095919.CLF58658@ms5.mc.surewest.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:53:45 -0000 On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 09:59:19AM -0700, leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net = wrote: You need to put the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks. Use bootcfg. ////jerry=20 > Good morning, FreeBSD enthusiasts. On my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstat= ion, I had one hard drive. I partitioned it with two slices, the first one= for FreeBSD 8.2 with its native file system, and the second one for a futu= re re-installation of Windows XP, to be formatted with NTFS file system. F= reeBSD 8.2 was then installed. The Windows XP re-installation has not yet = taken place. Recently, I installed a second hard drive on the machine that= was already formatted with two slices, both NTFS. Already installed on th= e first of these slices is the Windows XP operating system with a special a= pplication program. Already installed on the second slice is data. It is = my understanding that the FreeBSD loader is supposed to be able to load any= operating system. Upon power-up, the FreeBSD loader presents the followin= g screen: =20 >=20 > F1 Win > F2 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 1 > F6 PXE >=20 > If I depress F1, I receive the response "BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+= Alt+Del to restart." If I depress F2, FreeBSD loads normally. If I depres= s F5, I receive the response "Missing operatin system." How can I get the = FreeBSD loader to load the Windows XP operating system from the second hard= drive? The G.P.T. disklabel is not used by either of these operating syst= ems, so I do not believe that that is the problem. Although the FreeBSD op= erating system seems to see the second hard drive, it does not mount it upo= n startup. It does not appear in the fstab file. I attempted to mount it = manually using the mount command, without success, just to see if any of th= e data files could be read. I ran fsidk -B on the zeroeth sector of the se= cond hard drive, but that did not seem to help. I know that this type of i= ssue comes up repeatedly in the mailing lists, some of which I have read, b= ut I am flummoxed. Any and all suggestions would be appreciated. Your tru= ly, Lee Shackelfo > r! > d >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg"