Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 16:30:06 -0500 From: Tim <cyberlord@cyberlord.net.dhis.org> To: "aZaGHaL" <idelerha@dse.nl>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dualbooting windows XP? Message-ID: <200208181630.06853.cyberlord@cyberlord.net.dhis.org> In-Reply-To: <002701c246c3$c461dc70$0601a8c0@celeron400> References: <002701c246c3$c461dc70$0601a8c0@celeron400>
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On Sunday 18 August 2002 09:30 am, aZaGHaL wrote: > hiya. > > I have 2 disks(/drives). One installed with windows XP, and one with > Freebsd. During the installation of freeBSD I choose yes to bootmanager, and > made the drive bootable. > > However, when I power-on my computer, it simply starts windows XP and no > bootmanager at all! > > A friendly user on IRC gave me the suggestion the bootmanager was probably > installed on the freebsd disk, and not on the windows XP disk which > assumingly is the 'boot drive'. And thus I went looking for a flag in the > bios to set the 'boot drive' to the freebsd disk. > > And which of course failed. And now I'm desperately wondering what to do... > Any help would be appreciated! > > > Thanks in advance! You may be able to reverse the HDs, ie make the master one now the slave and vice versa. That way, the FreeBSD disk will be booted from instead. Hope this helps, Tim -- FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE 4:28PM up 5 days, 5:09, 2 users, load averages: 0.17, 0.15, 0.07 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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