Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 21:53:41 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN" <Micheal.Peters@niagarafalls.af.mil>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org '" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, bob89@bobj.org Subject: Re: Dumb question (dual booting WinXP with FBSD on 2nd drive) Message-ID: <opr7eh7rsd0cf2rk@dialup-4.239.9.187.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net> In-Reply-To: <527FE8CB31844C41AB3334125CE75E2B02D599D6@fsrvkq02.reserves.afrc.ds.af.mil> References: <527FE8CB31844C41AB3334125CE75E2B02D599D6@fsrvkq02.reserves.afrc.ds.af.mil>
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On Sun, 2 May 2004 18:58:51 -0400, Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN <Micheal.Peters@niagarafalls.af.mil> wrote: > Actually at the moment I can boot to both, just not the I intended. > After > trying to install the FreeBSD bootloader, and rebooting, I get nothing, > I go > stright to windows (which, technicaly, is what is suppose to happen). I > can > not configure boot.ini to load the FreeBSD drive (though the FreeBSD > bootloader) becouse I have nothing to point the ini file to (as per the > instrctions in the Handbook). Instead, what I have to do is on boot of > my > PC go into BIOS, Select which drive I want to boot from, reboot and > there I > go. Now, recently I've discovered how to inturupt BIOS and get it to > ask me > which drive I want to boot from, but it isn't windows XP boot loader > asking, > nor is it FreeBSD, Its BIOS, with about 1.5 seconds to catch it before it > boots from what ever the setting is at. Have a look at <URL: http://gag.sourceforge.net/>, or if you would like to use Grub, it is available in the ports collection (/usr/ports/sysutils/grub). Jud
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