From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 14:26:50 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 DF7DE16A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:26:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C47A43D1F for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:26:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i1QMQlS10937; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:26:47 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200402262226.i1QMQlS10937@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: mark@mystic1.net (Mark Weisman) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:26:46 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <88EB08D16800D34EA145D7DD2AA44998E64C@minnie.outland> from "Mark Weisman" at Feb 26, 2004 01:11:28 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 22:26:51 -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 fact that it displays ?? is only a cosmetic problem. Have you tried selecting F1 to see if it will boot the XP slice? Mine does. Also, a side issue, in FreeBSD land, what you have is a disk with tw0 'slices' as apposed to partitions. Probably you have your FreeBSD slice divided up in to several 'partitions'. MS calls the primary divisions of a disk partitions, but in BSD UNIX land they are called slices. > 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. I have not been successfule with that sort of thing. Anyway, I don't think just putting it in rc.conf would do the trick because that just sets a bunch of variables in there. Then the stuff is actually run from rc (and some other places I think) using those variable values set in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.. I think you might not want your startx to fire off until after you log in anyway. That would mean putting it in .login (if you have a csh or tcsh shell) and that is what didn't work for me, though I didn't try many variations. But, someone else better weigh in on this. ////jerry > > Res Ipsa Loquitor, > Mark-Nathaniel Weisman > Site Master > Mystic1.net > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >