Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sam Jones <samjones1986@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Dual booting problems Message-ID: <200703011330.45944.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <200703011321.43142.beech@alaskaparadise.com> References: <63c8e94f0703011336l3b90c7b8r3b3ba31423aa2276@mail.gmail.com> <200703011321.43142.beech@alaskaparadise.com>
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--nextPart4030647.S0Pk6WYJ7h Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 01 March 2007 13:21, Beech Rintoul said: > On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:36, Sam Jones said: > > I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA > > hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with > > Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first > > drive, and when the computer boots, it displays: > > > > F1 FreeBSD > > F5 Drive 1 > > > > When I press F5, FreeBSD loads and not Windows. I know Windows is > > working because when I disconnect the first drive, Windows boots > > from the second just fine. I've tried using boot0cfg to reload > > the boot manager, but that doesn't help. The simplest thing to do > > would be to specify that F5 boots Windows, but I can't find > > anything. > > > > Is this configuration even possible? Or does Windows just make it > > impossible to boot from the second disk? > > You need to switch your drives around and setup accordingly. > Windows (at least in my experience) will not boot from anything but > the first drive. I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both=20 disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the=20 handbook. Beech > > Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart4030647.S0Pk6WYJ7h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBF51QVp5D0B1NlT4URApXXAJ9WcWiC7mubHeAxFMZUdeigXl9uBgCeI9Lm lJG1gGVLH7PfO25WIVJLASw= =foLc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4030647.S0Pk6WYJ7h--
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