From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 14:35:45 2003 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 E0AA337B40D for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CACDA43FCB for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1050960944.53a9a3@mired.org) Received: (qmail 88416 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2003 21:35:44 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 16 Apr 2003 21:35:44 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-inject, from uid 100); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:35:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16029.52399.488013.529541@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:35:43 -0500 To: Michael Rasile In-Reply-To: <200304161742.h3GHgKZT002583@ohsmtp01.ogw.rr.com> References: <200304161742.h3GHgKZT002583@ohsmtp01.ogw.rr.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.74 (Citation) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootloader 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: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:35:46 -0000 In <200304161742.h3GHgKZT002583@ohsmtp01.ogw.rr.com>, Michael Rasile typed: > Greetings! > Thanks to all who responded with suggestions as to how to install a > bootloader. Well, nothing is working. I have WinXP on my first hard > drive. I have installed FreeBSD 4.7 on the second hard drive. It's > installed,but the part of the install that should install the > bootmanager needs to be rewritten, IMHO. Sorry to say this, but Linux > does the bootloader much better. I find the instructions very > confusing. I really want to give Free BSD a chance, but if I can't > get it to load with the boot loader, then it doesn't matter. So, is > there any way I can install a bootloader on the WinXP drive without > reinstalling FreeBSD. Does no good to reinstall because it's always > the same problem. I've checked the docs, the mailing lists, but with > no specific answer. Somebody needs to clarify the boot loader install > for people like me. :-) Unless you've got something specific to suggest, there's not much chance of any change happening. "I couldn't figure out what to do" doesn't really provide much in the way of guidance for changing it. Quoting the sentences that didn't make sense not only provides that guidance, but gives us to explain them to you, which is a good start on new wording that can be PRed. FWIW, the entire installer is being rewritten from the ground up. See for details. > Thanks for anything, except "get it right, stupid." :-))))) If you can boot to FreeBSD at all, you can use boot0cfg to install the FreeBSD boot loader that gives you choices. Read the man page for boot0cfg for exact details of usage, but something like "boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0" should do the trick. You might try that from the rescue CDROM if you can't boot the second disk. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.