Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:40:54 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Petre Bandac <petre@kgb.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual boot with freebsd boot loader Message-ID: <42EF9406.3060103@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20050802132819.50dee3cf@xxl.rdsbv.ro> References: <20050802132819.50dee3cf@xxl.rdsbv.ro>
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Petre Bandac wrote:
> I have the following configuration
>
> ad0s1 - win xp with ntfs
> ad0s2 - freebsd
>
> they were installed in the above order, so now I can use only freebsd
>
> is there a way to configure freebsd's boot loader to be able to boot
> from the win partition (I googled around and found boot0cfg (8), but
> didn't have the time to play with it)
Yes, this is possible.
# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 // make the MBR writable
# boot0cfg -s 1 /dev/ad0 // set default selection
You'll find further information and even examples in the manpage of
boot0cfg.
> what I want to know is if (making a similarity with linux's lilo) I can
> make the boot loader to have the options 1) boot win, 2) boot freebsd
This should be the default behaviour of boot0. In case you didn't
installed it yet you can do it with
# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 // make the MBR writable
# boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0 // install boot0
Regards Björn
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Björn König (bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de)
student at the Technische Universität Berlin
http://bkoenig.alpha-tierchen.de/
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