Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:05:06 -0800 From: lists <lists@dlfws.net> To: Mike Maltese <mike@pcmedx.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD - odd problem Message-ID: <3FA73382.9060506@dlfws.net> In-Reply-To: <3FA605DB.1080100@pcmedx.com> References: <3FA5F42F.4090009@pcmedx.com> <3FA601DB.6050007@dlfws.net> <3FA605DB.1080100@pcmedx.com>
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Mike Maltese 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. > > Help me out here guys, I'm trying to make a convert out of my friend! > > Thanks, Mike > > > Howdy, Shot in the dark ( well, kinda ). Did you set the FreeBSD partition to be bootable when you created it ( the S option in the FDISKPartition Editor )? What does your partition scheme look like? ( More specific that ad0s1 & ad0s1 ) ( hmm, maybe I'll put some more useless parens in here () () () ) Thanatos Thanatos
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