From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 10:03:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 4BEE116A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:03:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D1143D45 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:03:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from pooh.nagual.st (pooh.nagual.st [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.st with esmtp; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:03:31 +0200 id 0000001E.4312DD73.00000AC0 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:03:39 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk To: fbsdq Message-Id: <20050829120339.24fc9fcd.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <4312C8A3.7010906@locolomo.org> References: <4312C8A3.7010906@locolomo.org> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager 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: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:03:33 -0000 On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:34:43 +0200 Erik Norgaard 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