From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 30 18:15:33 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD60316A419 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:15:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j.van_den_hoff@fzd.de) Received: from ix2.fz-rossendorf.de (ix2.fz-rossendorf.de [149.220.4.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9191513C45D for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:15:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j.van_den_hoff@fzd.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ix2.fz-rossendorf.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE5EBC71 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:56:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from ix2.fz-rossendorf.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ix2 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11561-02-2 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:56:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from fz-rossendorf.de (cg2.fzd.de [149.220.4.66]) by ix2.fz-rossendorf.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8F8BC5E for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:56:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from [149.220.10.42] (HELO localhost) by cg2.fz-rossendorf.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.13) with ESMTP id 815249 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:56:34 +0100 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:56:34 +0100 From: Joerg van den Hoff To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071130175633.GA1244@marco.fz-rossendorf.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at fz-rossendorf.de Subject: problem with dual disk/ dual boot installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:15:33 -0000 dear list, today I've tried a very first installation of 6.2 on the second disk of an i86 machine which runs windows xp professional 2002 service pack 2 on disk one. initially, I erroneously did _not_ select installation of the boot manager on the first disk (were windows resides), but only on the second (the BSD one). after the intallation was completed without any apparent problems I noted my mistake (well, the machine was booting windows ...) and tried to correct it first with sysinstall doing excactly how the manual said (select first disk, leave immediately with Q and procede etc.). this had no effect (windows booting without any boot manager appearing....). second I tried to use bootinstall.exe boot.bin from disk 1. this led first to a message from windows (in german). approx. translation: "application tries to access the disk directly. this is not supported. this can result in incorrect operation of the application." after 'ignore'ing this message I got "Error 128 reading boot record from disk 0." in the dos shell. I've never used windows at all (rather MacOS X) up to now (but want to keep windows functional on the machine). so I don't know if I encounter a trivial windows permission problem here or what else. I tried to find the answer in the docs/faqs but to no avail. therefore, any help would be greatly appreciated. since I'm not (yet) supscribed to the list, mail/cc me directly, please. thanks in advance, joerg