From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 14:16:55 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 1262B16A4CF for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:16:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.mystic1.net (mail.mystic1.net [209.193.34.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B3143D39 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:16:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@mystic1.net) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:11:28 -0900 Message-ID: <88EB08D16800D34EA145D7DD2AA44998E64C@minnie.outland> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Boot and MBR. thread-index: AcP8tXsm7LvoLF9bSKCsHUDYsK6RGg== From: "Mark Weisman" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Boot and MBR. 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: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:16:55 -0000 I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and had it take control of the MBR. I know that the other partition is still bootable if I can get a pointer to it, currently the boot menu shows it as: F!: ?? F2: FreeBSD How can I get that first menu choice to look at the installation on the first partition as bootable? Making the machine a dual boot between the two system? The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on these two would be awesome. Thanks. Res Ipsa Loquitor, Mark-Nathaniel Weisman Site Master Mystic1.net