Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:31:20 +0400 From: Ilya Kazakevich <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dual boot winxp & 9.1-rc3 Message-ID: <CAHv=rM0=HGM5s8uVs0Lv10Mcr_7aJ2ChcgAiOnoUtV6tJtfDoQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50BC0325.2080203@a1poweruser.com> References: <50BC0325.2080203@a1poweruser.com>
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > On an old 20gb hard drive I first installed winxp on the first half of the > HD. winxp booted fine. Then I installed 9.1-rc3 on the second half of the > HD. Now when I boot the HD I only get 9.1-rc3. Winxp created mbr and > installed winxp into first dos partition. 9.1-rc3 uses bsdinstall which > uses gpart to create the slice as gpart show displays as see below... > > => 63 39862305 ada0 MBR (19G) > 63 19928097 1 ntfs (9.5G) > 19928160 19933137 2 freebsd [active] (9.5G) > 39861297 1071 - free - (535k) > > => 0 19933137 ada0s2 BSD (9.5G) > 0 18933760 1 freebsd-ufs (9.0G) > 18933760 995328 2 freebsd-swap (486M) > 19929088 4049 - free - (2M) > > Now I want to add BSD dual boot to the MBR. > Is this all I need? > > fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ada > > Yes, you should install "bootmanager" (boot0) to the MBR of your HDD. You probably better use boot0cfg (man boot0cfg ) BTW you could also use windows boot manager (fetch MBS and configure boot.ini to work with it) but boot0 is, probably, better. Ilya.
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