From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 2 14:51:12 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 D1FB216A4CF for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 14:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakermmtao05.cox.net (lakermmtao05.cox.net [68.230.240.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D3743D3F for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 14:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob89@bobj.org) Received: from mail.bobj.org ([24.250.218.207]) by lakermmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20040502215112.GMZZ18641.lakermmtao05.cox.net@mail.bobj.org> for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 17:51:12 -0400 Received: from bobj.wb4jcm.org ([192.168.132.167]) by neti.bobj.org with esmtp; Sun, 02 May 2004 17:51:10 -0400 From: Bob Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 17:51:01 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <527FE8CB31844C41AB3334125CE75E2B02D599D5@fsrvkq02.reserves.afrc.ds.af.mil> In-Reply-To: <527FE8CB31844C41AB3334125CE75E2B02D599D5@fsrvkq02.reserves.afrc.ds.af.mil> X-Source-System: Bob's Laptop MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405021751.02047.bob89@bobj.org> cc: Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN Subject: Re: Dumb question (dual booting WinXP with FBSD on 2nd drive) 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: Sun, 02 May 2004 21:51:12 -0000 On Sunday 02 May 2004 04:38 pm, Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN <"Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN" > wrote: > /boot/boot0 needs to be installed using sysinstall by > selecting the FreeBSD boot manager on the screen which asks if you > wish to use a boot manager. This is because /boot/boot0 has the > partition table area filled with NULL characters but sysinstall > copies the partition table before copying /boot/boot0 to the > MBR. > > > I tried to run the procedure as perscribed in the handbook, but it > didn't seem to work. For starters, to get to the screen that > installs the boot manager, the only place I could find it was off of > FDISK, So I selected the first hard drive, an was notified that the > Drive Geomotry(sp?) was invalid. This is nothing that I had set up, > the drive was install out of the box, and windows was install to it. > The Drive was autodetected by BIOS, and neither BIOS nor Windows had > any problems with it. The screen that installs the boot manager (as mentioned above) is part of the install process. > > Now seeing as I had no planes on actually doing much with the drive > partions anyway, just quit out of that section and was persented with > the boot manager screen, which I (following the instructions in the > handbook) selected to install the BSD boot manager, and continued on. > I don't remember the exactly what happened after that, but there > where no errors, so I exited out of the process and went into > winodows to finish the procedure. > > > BSD never asked me what I wanted to name the file, and when I went > into windows and checked the windows Drive, there where no files that > have been modified (as far as boot sector files) I could not follow > the final step in modifing the Boot.ini file as I had nothing to > point it to. > FreeBSD doesn't write any files to Windows. You will need to copy the appropriate files yourself. I don't fully understand what you are saying happened. It sounds like you can now boot to FreeBSD but not XP? When you boot, are you presented with a choice of which partition to boot? - Bob