From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 2 15:58:59 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 C706E16A4CE for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 15:58:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from artemis.afrc.af.mil (artemis.afrc.af.mil [129.54.8.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2443E43D3F for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 15:58:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Micheal.Peters@niagarafalls.af.mil) Received: from fsrvkq02.reserves.afrc.ds.af.mil (fsrvkq02.niagarafalls.af.mil [129.54.213.30]) by artemis.afrc.af.mil with ESMTP id i42Mww6X018755 for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 18:58:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by fsrvkq02.reserves.afrc.ds.af.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Sun, 2 May 2004 18:58:56 -0400 Message-ID: <527FE8CB31844C41AB3334125CE75E2B02D599D6@fsrvkq02.reserves.afrc.ds.af.mil> From: Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org '" Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 18:58:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 22:58:59 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: Bob Johnson >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Cc: Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN >Sent: 5/2/2004 5:51 PM >Subject: Re: Dumb question (dual booting WinXP with FBSD on 2nd drive) >The screen that installs the boot manager (as mentioned above) is part >of the install process. Right, but you can also go back to the boot manager select screen by going though FDISK >FreeBSD doesn't write any files to Windows. You will need to copy the >appropriate files yourself. According to the handbook, when dual booting using 2 hard drives (In this case Windows XP on one and FreeBSD on the other, you need to use the Boot0 File, however, this file can NOT be copied to the hard drive, as it will compleate over write the master boot record with NULL and FreeBSD. Insteed The FreeBSD installer will copy the file over for you. When dual booting using the same partition of a hard drive, then, you can copy the boot1 file over to the windows drive >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? Actually at the moment I can boot to both, just not the I intended. After trying to install the FreeBSD bootloader, and rebooting, I get nothing, I go stright to windows (which, technicaly, is what is suppose to happen). I can not configure boot.ini to load the FreeBSD drive (though the FreeBSD bootloader) becouse I have nothing to point the ini file to (as per the instrctions in the Handbook). Instead, what I have to do is on boot of my PC go into BIOS, Select which drive I want to boot from, reboot and there I go. Now, recently I've discovered how to inturupt BIOS and get it to ask me which drive I want to boot from, but it isn't windows XP boot loader asking, nor is it FreeBSD, Its BIOS, with about 1.5 seconds to catch it before it boots from what ever the setting is at. >- Bob P.S. Bob, I really do appreaciate the time you took the answer this question. As I've stated, I can Dual boot, it's just a major pain the way I have to do it. I'm just looking for the "right way" or the "better way".