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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