From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 16 22:17:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 86BB516A423 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:17:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F48D43D68 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:17:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jBGMHIx4027882; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:17:19 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:17:41 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <70063950512161331u294280cdl8bd552be9426752c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <70063950512161331u294280cdl8bd552be9426752c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512161417.41218.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Marty Landman Subject: Re: how to dual boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:17:56 -0000 On Friday 16 December 2005 01:31 pm, Marty Landman wrote: > I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP > sp1. First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP > on the remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can > get back to the FBSD installer by booting from the 5.3 CD but what do > I do to provide a choice of which to boot right on the HD? I use the ntldr to boot my dual boots. You just have to copy boot1 onto your c-drive and then add it to your boot.ini. You can do that from the system applet. I renamed boot1 to bootsect.bsd and my boot.ini is as follows: [boot loader] timeout=4 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINXP [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINXP="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /f c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" The line should be XP Professional but all I added was the FreeBSD. Ntldr lets you choose which one is primary and then, with a pop-down menu, easily change it to something else. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html