From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 3:20:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF0F37B4C4; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 03:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E74343E6A; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 03:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-63.214.208.198.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.208.198] helo=sparky) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17pR5b-0003qx-00; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 03:20:47 -0700 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, "Pookie" Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 06:21:18 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <000001c25a1f$b3990070$0a5efea9@pookie> Message-Id: <04D8B9A8GCUQWSQTS0898BAURRM1ZBA.3d806a9e@sparky> Subject: Re: NT LOADER + Laptop MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.05 build 1140 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 9/12/2002 1:46:00 AM, "Pookie" wrote: >I attempted to install FreeBSD on my laptop along side WinXP Home. I >chose no FBSD boot loader. Reading the online documentation it says I >can boot BSD from NT Loader. So I go in, mount my winxp >partition(/mnt/WinXP). Then I go to /boot and do a "cp /boot/boot* >/mnt/WinXP". That commands overwrites my MBR with the FBSD boot loader >correct? Nope. You need to read the documentation more carefully. You *don't* want to write /boot/boot0 to your XP partition, as the online FAQ explains. You want to write /boot/boot1 as a *file* on your XP partition. Then you can add [drive letter]:\[boot1 filename]="FreeBSD" as a line in the WinXP boot.ini file. Is your XP partition FAT or NTFS? If the latter, last I knew, FBSD couldn't write to NTFS. In that case, you need to write from FBSD to a floppy or FAT partition, then go back to XP and copy the file from floppy/FAT. How do I successfully get this working. > >Id appreciate it if someone was kind enough to help me out, command by >command The online FAQ does contain step-by-step instructions that I don't know how to improve on. If after careful reading there's a specific item in those instructions that's not clear to you, please ask. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message