Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:04:09 -0500 From: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> To: c.j.murray@durham.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running with WinXP Message-ID: <1037988249.6a532980jud@myrealbox.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: "Chris Murray" <c.j.murray@durham.ac.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:49:02 -0000 Subject: Running with WinXP Help! I have successfully managed to install FreeBSD into some free space on my second hard drive, but I am unable to actually boot into the operating system! I have tried to find a boot disk with no luck, and the utilities that modify the boot sector simply throw a wobbler when XP won't let them access the hard drive!! Any help is much appreciated! Chris Murray ********************************************* You will want to have a look at the wobbler(8) man page. OK, seriously - you have a couple of options. It's likely that the XP partition is marked as the active one, and if you don't have FreeBSD as one of the choices in XP's bootloader (see the FAQ on FreeBSD's web site for how to do this) it'll just keep booting into XP. You can get back into the FreeBSD installation by booting from floppies or CD (whatever you did the first time), install the FreeBSD boot loader, and set the FreeBSD slice bootable. Or you can try one of the freeware or shareware bootloaders (XOSL, BootItNG, etc.), which should work - don't know about XOSL, but BootItNG looks at the BIOS to see what your bootable disks/partitions are, so XP should give it no problem. (I'm currently using it to dual-boot W2K and FreeBSD on a two-disk RAID-0 array.) My favorite bootloader is Grub (in the FreeBSD ports), but using Grub to boot from RAID-0 is beyond either its capabilities or (more likely) mine. Or, once you're able to get back and forth between FBSD and XP, you can use the XP/NT/W2K bootloader technique described in the FAQ. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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