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From: Tim <cyberlord@cyberlord.net.dhis.org>
To: "aZaGHaL" <idelerha@dse.nl>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: dualbooting windows XP?
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 16:30:06 -0500
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On Sunday 18 August 2002 09:30 am, aZaGHaL wrote:
> hiya.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> However, when I power-on my computer, it simply starts windows XP and n=
o
> bootmanager at all!
>=20
> A friendly user on IRC gave me the suggestion the bootmanager was proba=
bly
> 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 t=
he
> bios to set the 'boot drive' to the freebsd disk.
>=20
> And which of course failed. And now I'm desperately wondering what to d=
o...
> Any help would be appreciated!
>=20
>=20
> Thanks in advance!

You may be able to reverse the HDs, ie make the master one now the slave =
and=20
vice versa. That way, the FreeBSD disk will be booted from instead.

Hope this helps,

Tim

--=20
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