From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 07:52:51 2004 Return-Path: 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 5632216A4CE for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 07:52:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from dm3cnd.bell.ca (dm3cnd.bell.ca [206.47.0.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C81943D2D for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 07:52:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from christopher.hollow@cgi.com) Received: from 142.122.115.62dm3cnd.bell.ca with ESMTP (Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay (MMS v5.0)); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:52:43 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: F7F6AAF0-A437-4F8E-BDFA-B18CACF73C6B Received: from cgi.com ([172.28.32.80]) by bt5c69.on.bell.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 BESI_Messaging_7 Apr 29 2002 13:22:02) with ESMTP id HTR2RU00.041; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:52:42 -0500 Message-ID: <403F672B.8020506@cgi.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:03 -0500 From: "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mark Weisman" References: <88EB08D16800D34EA145D7DD2AA44998E64F@minnie.outland> In-Reply-To: X-WSS-ID: 6C21B8411019064-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:52:51 -0000 You can also Grub it up: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ http://www.daemonnews.org/200102/grub.html Grub is a popular and well-supported OSS boot loader.... HTH, Chris Jud wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:18:01 -0900, Mark Weisman > wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity what is the order in creating a dual boot system? >> Which operating system do you put on first? I see that having WinXP >> setup in partitions is not a good idea, yet I'm not aware of how to load >> the system in just a slice? I would appreciate any and all help in >> trying to get this thing online. I need my workstation back as soon as >> possible. Thanks. > > [snip] > >>> I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had >> >> >>> WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP >> >> >>> installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and >>> had it take control of the MBR. I know that the other partition is >>> still bootable if I can get a pointer to it, currently the boot menu >>> shows it >>> as: >>> F!: ?? >>> F2: FreeBSD >>> How can I get that first menu choice to look at the installation on >> >> the >> >>> first partition as bootable? Making the machine a dual boot between >> >> the >> >>> two system? >> > > First off, don't worry about slice vs partition - Jerry was just > telling you those are the names used by FreeBSD and Windows, > respectively, for the same thing. > > Second, how to get your dual boot going - > > 1. I think if you do what you've already done in FreeBSD (set the > Windows slice/partition bootable) and then type "w" to write the > change, that should work. > > If it doesn't, two other alternatives - > > 2. If you have a Win9x emergency boot/system floppy hanging around, > use fdisk to set the Windows partition/slice active, then reboot; or > > 3. Install GAG, a free, easy and automagical boot loader. http://gag.sourceforge.net/>. > > Hope this helps, > > Jud > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Christopher Hollow - Consultant Infrastructure & Technology Support Toronto, ON