Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 01:02:52 +0200 From: "Michael Vondung" <michael@vcommunities.net> To: "'Denis'" <intraden@mail.ru>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Easy boot between FBSD and WinXP Message-ID: <002b01c378b8$d79e0980$0200a8c0@tabby> In-Reply-To: <1523156266.20030911200002@mail.ru>
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Hi, Denis, This sounds pretty much like my set-up. All I had to do was to let Sysinstall write a BootMgr on *both* disks. In /stand/sysinstall, just = go in the "Fdisk" section, select your first drive, don't do anything else = here, and immediately leave with "Q". It will ask you if you want to write the BootMgr, a standard MBR or do nothing. Select BootMgr. You'll need to do this for each of the disks. Then leave sysinstall. When you boot, you'll see something like this (assuming XP is on the = first disk (disk 0) and you have two NTFS partitions): F1 ??? F2 ??? F5 Disk 1 F1 will boot XP. Hit F5 to boot from the second disk and you'll see: F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk 0 F1 here will boot you into FreeBSD, and F5 get you back to the first selection.=20 Note: I'm a newbie myself, but the above worked for me and doesn't = require additional software. The ??? isn't pretty, but it works. Just be careful that you don't slice the disk that has XP on it. M. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Denis Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 18:00 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Easy boot between FBSD and WinXP Hi All!!! I use two hard disk. In first I have FreeBSD. In Second - WinXP. Does anybody know some easy way to boot between FBSD hard and WinXP hard? Now, I change priority of hard disks in my BIOS options.... it's very uncomfortable:(((( -- Best regards, Denis intraden@mail.ru _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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