Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:58:42 -0400 From: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: Petre Bandac <petre@kgb.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual boot with freebsd boot loader Message-ID: <54db439905080210581ac5c8dc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050802132819.50dee3cf@xxl.rdsbv.ro> References: <20050802132819.50dee3cf@xxl.rdsbv.ro>
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On 8/2/05, Petre Bandac <petre@kgb.ro> wrote: > hello >=20 > I have the following configuration >=20 > ad0s1 - win xp with ntfs=20 > ad0s2 - freebsd >=20 > they were installed in the above order, so now I can use only freebsd >=20 > 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) >=20 Yes. > 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 >=20 > I do not want to install grub or other boot loader unless the default > freebsd boot manager cannot be used in the configuration described above >=20 If you install the FreeBSD bootmanager, it will do that by default, but I usually use the Windows boot manager. There is a FAQ entry for it, see=20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOAD= ER It talks about Windows NT, but it works the same. The FreeBSD boot manager will automatically boot you to the O/S that you=20 last selected manually. I believe the NT boot manager will always boot to= =20 the same default unless you manually intervene, but I may be remembering=20 that wrong. The NT boot loader is much prettier. To get your system to boot to FreeBSD so you can make a copy of boot1,=20 you may need to run Windows fdisk to set the FreeBSD partition to be the=20 active partition. Then use FreeBSD fdisk to change back to Windows so=20 you can set it up. - Bob > thanks, >=20 > petre
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