From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 7: 7:20 2002 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 090D437B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 07:07:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from excmrl02.conversent.com (excmrl02.conversent.com [216.41.100.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F3243EA9 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 07:07:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bjackson@conversent.com) Received: from conversent.com (SHIRE [10.0.4.105]) by excmrl02.conversent.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id YMTV0B6B; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:07:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3DFDEC00.5070702@conversent.com> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:06:40 -0500 From: Brian Jackson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot Manager / Install Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi - I have a question regarding installation - the handbook alluded to the answer, but I'd like opinions from people who may have done this before :) My system is setup as follows: IDE Controller 0 : Drive 0 (jumpered as master) : Windows XP IDE Controller 0 : Drive 1 (jumpered as slave) : FreeBSD 4.7 I'd like to be able to boot to either drive - but I'm not sure how to configure the Boot Manager to accomplish this. I assume that I need to use Partition Magic or something similar to make space on drive 0 for the boot manager? Can I just go into sysinstall and select disk 0, then install the boot manager? Any How To's, URLs, or words of wisdom greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian -- bjackson@conversent.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message