From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 16:14:43 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 C70D316A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:14:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx08.covadmail.net [63.65.120.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B2EE43D2D for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:14:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bayp@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: (covad.net 9589 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2004 00:14:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sdf.lonestar.org) (th3b4yp@66.167.44.232) by sun-qmail17 with SMTP; 30 Jan 2004 00:14:36 -0000 Message-ID: <4019A222.8070700@sdf.lonestar.org> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:15:30 -0500 From: K Claussen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: greg References: <1075420318.743.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1075420318.743.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:14:43 -0000 greg wrote: > 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. [.. snip ..] > 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 actually did something similar -- if not exactly the same.. the best solution that I could come up with was to use BootIt NG (http://www.bootitng.com/) to boot the system. That was the only of the approximately 15 solutions that I tried that worked. Now, the PC in question is exclusively FreeBSD, so I don't have to worry about it.. but check out BootIt NG.. also, I'd be curious if anyone had any luck with other methods.. -- Kurt -- Kurt Claussen SDF Public Access Unix System -- http://sdf.lonestar.org