From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 20:09:30 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 8B9AC16A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:09:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CE943D45 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:09:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from normal1.lists@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so295795wri for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:09:27 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=jWIWWW2cjTt4m3uxZ0kBUMUUF7vBzPRzg28bkTWutcUdYezMQfCJweN6ciTtBKA1SnO3KDDX/y1i++FBi/ouNHXzQGJ+K0VYOZ6RSJGN0rLAUyanwYCM4bBLjI30VArHFyU4rT8A/sRtsQsHz39BoQuT5l5jYeai8VJ05nsROdY= Received: by 10.54.25.56 with SMTP id 56mr335403wry; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:09:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.2.67 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:09:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:09:26 -0800 From: gabriel To: FreeBsdBeni In-Reply-To: <200501242101.39573.freebsdbeni@spymac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200501242101.39573.freebsdbeni@spymac.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Irvin Piraman Subject: Re: Dual booting w/ two disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabriel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:09:30 -0000 Okay cool, I'll try those when I get home. I think the main issue with me is just finding the actual partition on the second disk to boot windows because I dont know which is it. Thanks! On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:01:39 +0100, FreeBsdBeni wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:27:45 -0800, gabriel wrote: > > > I'm trying to dual boot FreeBSD and Windows XP with two different > > > disks, I have manged to get FreeBSD running and installed the boot > > > manager and grub on it. > > > > > > When I boot into windows, I get some sort of boot loader error and it > > > halts. > > > > > > Here's my menu.lst: > > I have Grub booting just from 1 disk, not 2, but with 4 different partitions. > Here's my menu.lst as installed by Suse 9.2. I just moved the FreeBSD lines up > to the first place ;-). The lines to boot FreeBSD from the Linux Grub version > I found with a "info grub" under Suse. There is a chapter on booting other > OS'es. But it boots Windows XP, FreeBSD and Suse without any problem here. > > color white/blue black/light-gray > default 0 > timeout 8 > gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message > > ###Added by Beni ### > title FreeBSD > root (hd0,a) > kernel /boot/loader > boot > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### > title SUSE LINUX 9.2 > kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 > splash=verbose resume=/dev/hda6 desktop elevator=as showopts > initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### > title Windows XP > root (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### > title Diskette > root (fd0) > chainloader +1 > > ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### > title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 9.2 > kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off > acpi=off vga=normal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 > initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd > > -- > FreeBsdBeni. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- gabriel, Member of: FreeBSD-Announce FreeBSD-Hardware FreeBSD-Multimedia FreeBSD-questions