From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 02:10:29 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 7C17516A426 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:10:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from payne@magidesign.com) Received: from ciphertrust.net (delta.ciphertrust.com [216.235.158.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB0243D53 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:10:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from payne@magidesign.com) Received: from ([10.40.36.17]) by mail0.ciphertrust.net with ESMTP id NEXGATE02.50793; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:09:59 -0500 Message-ID: <43A37377.8050507@magidesign.com> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:09:59 -0500 From: Payne User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister References: <200512170039.jBH0dTOK005583@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200512170039.jBH0dTOK005583@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:10:29 -0000 Jerry McAllister 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? >> >> Well, you could try grub, but if you want a fact way of doing, it will cost. OS Selector from Acronis, or Boot Manager from PartitionMagic. OS Selector What you have to do is create a partition, about 100mb or 50mb and it must be FAT16/32, so if your windows partitions is fats, then you don't have to create the partition, but way it doesn't have to be first partition, just visible to OS Selector. Once you install it will read what OS'es you have install. It not a bad program because I have remove freebsd, for dragonfly and PC-BSD, and didn't have to anything just select the partition it was install on. Boot Manager is I remember install on the master boot record and has to be install from the windows partions. I don't like it because I have kill a computer or two with it. Grub has come a long way and there mail list and docs. But if you are newbie you might want to go the route of OS Selector. Just remember that when you install freebsd you not to select a boot manager. Now before I get flame, I have use the freebsd boot manager BUT only with freebsd. Payne