Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:43:20 +0300 From: Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru> To: Mike Maltese <mike@pcmedx.com> Cc: lists <lists@dlfws.net> Subject: Re: Dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD - odd problem Message-ID: <20031103144320.6a761561.doublef@tele-kom.ru> In-Reply-To: <3FA605DB.1080100@pcmedx.com> References: <3FA5F42F.4090009@pcmedx.com> <3FA601DB.6050007@dlfws.net> <3FA605DB.1080100@pcmedx.com>
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--Signature=_Mon__3_Nov_2003_14_43_20_+0300_WK0RC_yw_V4Fc/lZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:38:03 -0800 Mike Maltese <mike@pcmedx.com> probably wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > > > Do you have WinXP and FreeBSD on the same disc or on two separate discs? > > > > Thanatos > > > > > > Same physical disk. Windoze is on ad0s1 and FBSD is on ad0s2. At the > moment I'm looking into restoring XP's MBR and then utilizing it's boot > manager by copying the FreeBSD boot blocks. I know this can be done with > Linux, we'll see about FreeBSD. =) I can't believe this isn't working, > I've had great success in the past with dual-booting. The mainboard is a > Shuttle AK12 and I just flashed the BIOS to the latest version. It's not > the newest board, so I'm wondering if I'm running into the 1024 cylinder > limit thing. If your win slice is >8G, you probably are. You should shrink it. Boot areas of both Windows and FreeBSD (part of win and FreeBSD root) should fit into the first 8G for BootEasy to work. > Help me out here guys, I'm trying to make a convert out of my friend! :) -- DoubleF Ass, n.: The masculine of "lass". --Signature=_Mon__3_Nov_2003_14_43_20_+0300_WK0RC_yw_V4Fc/lZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/pj9kwo7hT/9lVdwRAgW9AJ4p1Qry5hzsd2IYwzGJ7SKRoo+C7QCfeL1Y /VsRY5PFrGlghzhOFcyDGr4= =Fvft -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Mon__3_Nov_2003_14_43_20_+0300_WK0RC_yw_V4Fc/lZ--
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