Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 03:35:47 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot0 configuration question... Message-ID: <20040626003547.GA75676@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <40DD2CC4.1050605@broadpark.no> References: <40DC77C4.4020503@broadpark.no> <1088166069.24879.199166115@webmail.messagingengine.com> <40DCE70C.2010706@broadpark.no> <40DD2CC4.1050605@broadpark.no>
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On 2004-06-26 00:59, Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> wrote: > Now, what I did not expect is that if I set the FreeBSD drive as drive > 0 in the BIOS, I am still unable to boot WinXP. The boot manager comes > up, I select Drive 1, it prompts me again and I select the '???' entry > (WinXP) - and the machine reboots. Selecting FreeBSD at the first > invocation of boot0 gets me into FreeBSD alright. > However, setting the WinXP drive as drive 0 in the BIOS things work > flawlessly. At the first invocation of boot0, WinXP boots up if I > select '???'. If I select Drive 1, and the second invocation of boot0 > appears and I select 'FreeBSD' - it boots FreeBSD!! > Is this some weirdness of the BIOS? That the onboard IDE controllers > are somehow inherently preferred, and that weirdness occurs if drives > on any other controller are set to drive 0? It beats me, maybe one of > you guys know. Please let me know if you do, as this befuddles me. AFAIK it's not a weirdness of the BIOS but of the Windows XP loader, which expects that it will be fired up from the first (and only) active partition of the first disk.
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