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. >=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 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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