From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 16:51:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF7616A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:51:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp819.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp819.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1EAD43D46 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:51:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bmk0@pacbell.net) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (bmk0@pacbell.net@67.174.233.252 with plain) by smtp819.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2005 16:51:39 -0000 Message-ID: <41F52795.404@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:51:33 -0800 From: "Brian M. Kincaid" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gabriel References: <41F52638.3030509@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Dual booting w/ two disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:51:40 -0000 Yup, Windows needs to be the first disk. gabriel wrote: > In my case, freebsd is on the master and windows is on the slave, you > mean that it should be the other way around? > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:45:44 -0800, Brian M. Kincaid wrote: > >>I have been running a dual boot system with Windows and FreeBSD on >>separate disks for several years. I use just the basic FreeBSD MBR boot >>program, installed using the procedure described in the Handbook. >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html >> >>Windows XP needs to be on the first disk (Disk 0) and you can put >>FreeBSD on the other disk. Windows installation will clobber the FreeBSD >>boot block, so you need to write over it with the Handbook procedure. >> >>Brian >> > > >