From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 22:30:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B0A16A403 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:30:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (7-137-58-66.gci.net [66.58.137.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BE313C442 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:30:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stargate.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4D57D92; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:50 -0900 (AKST) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: FreeBSD Port Maintainer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <63c8e94f0703011336l3b90c7b8r3b3ba31423aa2276@mail.gmail.com> <200703011321.43142.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <200703011321.43142.beech@alaskaparadise.com> X-Face: jC2w\k*Q1\0DA2Q0Eh&BrP/Rt2M,^2O#R07VoT98m*>miQF9%Bi9vy`F6cPjwEe?m,)=?utf-8?q?2=0A=09X=3FM=5C=3AOE9QgZ?="xT3/n3,3MJ7N=Cfkmi%f(w^~X"SUxn>; 27NO; C+)g[7J`$G*SN>{<=?utf-8?q?O=3Bg7=7C=0A=09o=7D=265A=5D4?=@7D`=Eb@Zs1Ln814?]|k@'bG=.Ca"[|8+_.OsNAo8!#?4u MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4030647.S0Pk6WYJ7h"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703011330.45944.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: Sam Jones Subject: Re: Dual booting problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: beech@alaskaparadise.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:30:55 -0000 --nextPart4030647.S0Pk6WYJ7h Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 01 March 2007 13:21, Beech Rintoul said: > On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:36, Sam Jones said: > > I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA > > hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with > > Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first > > drive, and when the computer boots, it displays: > > > > F1 FreeBSD > > F5 Drive 1 > > > > When I press F5, FreeBSD loads and not Windows. I know Windows is > > working because when I disconnect the first drive, Windows boots > > from the second just fine. I've tried using boot0cfg to reload > > the boot manager, but that doesn't help. The simplest thing to do > > would be to specify that F5 boots Windows, but I can't find > > anything. > > > > Is this configuration even possible? Or does Windows just make it > > impossible to boot from the second disk? > > You need to switch your drives around and setup accordingly. > Windows (at least in my experience) will not boot from anything but > the first drive. I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both=20 disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the=20 handbook. Beech > > Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart4030647.S0Pk6WYJ7h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBF51QVp5D0B1NlT4URApXXAJ9WcWiC7mubHeAxFMZUdeigXl9uBgCeI9Lm lJG1gGVLH7PfO25WIVJLASw= =foLc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4030647.S0Pk6WYJ7h--