Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:03:39 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: fbsdq <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager Message-ID: <20050829120339.24fc9fcd.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <4312C8A3.7010906@locolomo.org> References: <4312C8A3.7010906@locolomo.org>
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:34:43 +0200 Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote: > I have a PC with two hard drives, one (master) dedicated FreeBSD the > other (slave) dedicated XP. The XP was preinstalled, and to avoid any > confusion, I disconnected the disk while installing FreeBSD. > > Now, I'd like to configure the FreeBSD boot manager to dual boot. In the > menu, I can choose FreeBSD or Disk 1, but choosing the latter does not > boot XP. How do I postconfigure the boot manager? Windows, including XP, wants to boot off the C-drive (the first boot device that is). So either you switch your drives OR you setup the BIOS to boot of the SECOND hardrive first. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja
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