From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 15:52:30 2004 Return-Path: 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 128B516A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:52:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.mts.net (smtp2.mts.net [205.200.16.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2E343D2D for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gval@mts.net) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (wnpgmb01dc6-40-11.dynamic.mts.net [142.161.40.11])i0TNq1gt017814 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:52:01 -0600 (CST) From: greg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1075420318.743.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:51:59 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Booting Release 5.2 and XP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:52:30 -0000 I want to be able to dual boot into FreeBSD and Windows XP. Right now FreeBSD is booting just fine. Windows XP is on a FAT32 filesystem on the first primary partition of the second hard drive. The second hard drive is the secondary master. I am booting my system with the standard boot loader that came with 5.2 Release. It detects the windows partition on the second hard drive as DOS partition. When I hit F5 (it prompts me to hit F5 to boot the DOS partition), it sits there and does nothing. I have fomated the MBR on the second drive, so it is MSed. Previous to the FreeBSD install, I was dual booting Debian and the same Windows XP partition. I had to do some work configuring GRUB to get it to work. What worked was swapping HD0 and HD1 when I choose to boot XP. This would fool Windows XP into thinking it was booting off the first hard drive. Is there a way to change loader.conf to do this. I have looked at the loader.conf fig help, and did not see any thing that would obviously do this. Maybe there is another boot loader I could use that would allow me to fool Windows XP into thinking it is the first hard drive? I would use GRUB, but it does not support being installed on a UFS2 filesystem yet. I dual boot only for the games. -- greg