Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:47:47 +0530 From: sac <sacchi@gmail.com> To: "Paul Halliday" <paul.halliday@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual boot. Message-ID: <e14997e00705310817j515d7da2n1faca355df89e345@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2dab70a30705300317g487d7649hd5f56e13c8233758@mail.gmail.com> References: <2dab70a30705300317g487d7649hd5f56e13c8233758@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/30/07, Paul Halliday <paul.halliday@gmail.com> wrote: > I just installed 6.2 on a 90GB drive. During the installation I > created the usual partitions and left 50GB untouched. I then rebooted > ran partition magic to put a DOS FS on the remainder then ghosted XP > pro onto it. > > What is the process now to dual boot this? I have tried booting then: > > sysinstall -> configure -> fdisk > > then install the bootmanager but when I try to write out the changes > it errors and says: > > ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0! > > Do I need to start over or can I fix this? > Hi, by default the variable kern.geom.debugflags will be 0 when 0 it does not allow to update the disk. Set this flag to 16. And try to install the bootmanager. This worked for me while creating new partition. HTH. And I do not know the functionality of this variable, somebody throw more light on this topic. Sachidananda.
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