From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 18 14:40:37 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 50EBE37B400 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C673543E70 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([62.49.21.186]) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 17gXmg-0005WW-0U; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:40:30 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:40:16 +0100 To: Tim Cc: aZaGHaL , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: dualbooting windows XP? References: <002701c246c3$c461dc70$0601a8c0@celeron400> <200208181630.06853.cyberlord@cyberlord.net.dhis.org> In-Reply-To: <200208181630.06853.cyberlord@cyberlord.net.dhis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U 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 Someone, quite probably Tim, once wrote: >On Sunday 18 August 2002 09:30 am, aZaGHaL wrote: >> 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! > >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. You could also put the FreeBSD bootmanager on the XP drive. Boot from your FreeBSD CD and enter the partition editor. Select the XP drive but don't change anything. Select w and you'll get told something like that is for advanced users only. As you come out of there you'll get the option of installing the bootmanager on that drive. Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message