Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:07:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: blueeskimo@gmx.net (Adam) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems setting up dual-boot Message-ID: <200304252007.h3PK7OeH019858@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1051298988.76975.28.camel@jake> from "Adam" at Apr 25, 2003 03:29:48 PM
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> On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 13:28, Adam wrote: > > Someone suggested modifying the Windows boot.ini file to do it, but I'm > > not really sure how to do that either. > > Alright, I figured out how to do this. I copied /boot/boot1 to a floppy, > put it on my Windows partition as boot.bsd, then added > c:boot.bsd=3D"FreeBSD" to my boot.ini .. > > I get two options when starting my computer now, but selecting the > FreeBSD option just causes the machine to reboot. > > Are all these problems just because the OS's are on different physical > disks? Could it be because I added the 1024mb swap partition before / > when I was going through the partition editor? Root needs to be the 'a' partition (maybe not absolutely, but everything seems to assume it is). > > I'm really at a loss here .. Sounds like you need to study the man pages for FreeBSD's fdisk and disklabel carefully along with the handbook. ////jerry >
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