From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 20:15:15 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 32F3816A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:15:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fep2.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22A343D49 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:15:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from [24.150.215.98] (d150-215-98.home.cgocable.net [24.150.215.98]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08BE23B1D; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:15:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41966B54.5090400@cogeco.ca> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:15:16 -0500 From: Brian Bobowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Thunderbird/0.7.1 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: giulianocm@uol.com.br References: <419654D2.6050506@uol.com.br> In-Reply-To: <419654D2.6050506@uol.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Boot with Windows XP 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: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:15:15 -0000 Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: > My first IDE drive is (on IDE 0 - master) .... with windows XP > controlling it MBR. > > My second IDE drive (on IDE 0 - slave) .... is with FreeBSD 5.3 > controlling it MBR. > > How can I do to configure the boot loader and the scripts: loader.rc > and loader.conf to create > a dual boot environment using FreeBSD boot loader ? > > I have to install the file boo0 on windows XP MBR drive ? > > And about the configurations to put them all in the same menu ? > > Thanks a lot, > > Giuliano The FreeBSD boot loader needs to be installed to whichever drive your BIOS thinks is first(likely your primary master), which according to what you cite above should indeed be the Windows XP drive. The boot loader, if installed through /stand/sysinstall at least, should automatically be configured to recognise both, but be advised that on my XP install(which is partitions on the same drive), the XP shows up as "???". Configuring other boot loaders such as grub is something I've never done myself, so can't really advise on. HTH, -BB