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Date:      Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:23:00 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        Rico Secada <coolzone@it.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding a XP disk to FreeBSD machine
Message-ID:  <46755FE4.3000204@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070617175349.9debf85a.coolzone@it.dk>
References:  <20070617175349.9debf85a.coolzone@it.dk>

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Rico Secada wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a box running FreeBSD 6.2 on ad0. 
>
> I have another HD which used to be in the same box running XP. I set
> this drive to slave and installed it into the box in order to dualboot. 
>
> On the bootmenu the new drive ad1 shows up:
>
> F1  FreeBSD
> F5  Drive 1
>
> Pressing F1 boots the disk on ad0 with FreeBSD, but pressing F5 also
> boots ad0 with FreeBSD.
>
> How can I make this work?
>
> Best regards.
>
> Rico
>   
1. All windows disks must be primary if you're going to boot off of them 
-- sorry, it's a stupid requirement that M$ setup a long time ago.
2. Drive 1 is the primary drive IIRC.
3. You'll have to setup the boot manager on the windows disk.

-Garrett



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