Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:13:55 +0200 From: "Marc van Woerkom" <Marc.Vanwoerkom@FernUni-Hagen.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and Windows XP on one system Message-ID: <web-6742431@mailstore.fernuni-hagen.de>
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Hello, I am trying to run both FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and Windows XP on one system and had no success yet. The system is a rather old PIII-400 with one 4 GB IDE hard disk (recognized by the BIOS) as master and one 40 GB IDE hard (where I have to disable the BIOS recognition) as slave hard disk. So far I managed to run Windows XP on that box, when I put a little start partition on the master drive and the XP installation on the slave drive. Windows XP was able to work with the 40 GB disk, while the BIOS hangs while autodetecting it. Then I tried to install FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE in another partition of the 40 GB disk. Sysinstall complained about the geometry of the 40 GB disk, saying that the values it read were impossible and it would continue with something more appropriate. Except for that bit the installation went as usual. However booting the system was not successful. The boot manager installed by sysinstall was neither able to boot Windows XP nor the FreeBSD installation. Is it possible that the standard FreeBSD boot manager doesn't work with Windows XP? Yesterday I tried to just install FreeBSD on that system, and maybe after that doing a new installation of Windows XP. But even this didn't work. So I now think that FreeBSD has big trouble with my disks. Perhaps the on board controller of the PIII-400 board is too old for 40 GB IDE drives? It is a bit frustrating that I managed to get both Windows XP and some older SuSE linux running on that system and not old faithful FreeBSD. :( I also bought the complete FreeBSD recently, it has really progressed from my old Walnut creek edition, but it doesn't cover systems running both FreeBSD and any Windows >= Windows 2000. Any idea what is going on? Help would be very welcome! Regards, Marc
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