Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 17:51:01 -0400 From: Bob Johnson <bob89@bobj.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN <Micheal.Peters@niagarafalls.af.mil> Subject: Re: Dumb question (dual booting WinXP with FBSD on 2nd drive) Message-ID: <200405021751.02047.bob89@bobj.org> In-Reply-To: <527FE8CB31844C41AB3334125CE75E2B02D599D5@fsrvkq02.reserves.afrc.ds.af.mil> References: <527FE8CB31844C41AB3334125CE75E2B02D599D5@fsrvkq02.reserves.afrc.ds.af.mil>
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On Sunday 02 May 2004 04:38 pm, Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN <"Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN" <Micheal.Peters@niagarafalls.af.mil>> wrote: > <quote>/boot/boot0 needs to be installed using sysinstall by > selecting the FreeBSD boot manager on the screen which asks if you > wish to use a boot manager. This is because /boot/boot0 has the > partition table area filled with NULL characters but sysinstall > copies the partition table before copying /boot/boot0 to the > MBR.</quote> > > > I tried to run the procedure as perscribed in the handbook, but it > didn't seem to work. For starters, to get to the screen that > installs the boot manager, the only place I could find it was off of > FDISK, So I selected the first hard drive, an was notified that the > Drive Geomotry(sp?) was invalid. This is nothing that I had set up, > the drive was install out of the box, and windows was install to it. > The Drive was autodetected by BIOS, and neither BIOS nor Windows had > any problems with it. The screen that installs the boot manager (as mentioned above) is part of the install process. > > Now seeing as I had no planes on actually doing much with the drive > partions anyway, just quit out of that section and was persented with > the boot manager screen, which I (following the instructions in the > handbook) selected to install the BSD boot manager, and continued on. > I don't remember the exactly what happened after that, but there > where no errors, so I exited out of the process and went into > winodows to finish the procedure. > > > BSD never asked me what I wanted to name the file, and when I went > into windows and checked the windows Drive, there where no files that > have been modified (as far as boot sector files) I could not follow > the final step in modifing the Boot.ini file as I had nothing to > point it to. > FreeBSD doesn't write any files to Windows. You will need to copy the appropriate files yourself. I don't fully understand what you are saying happened. It sounds like you can now boot to FreeBSD but not XP? When you boot, are you presented with a choice of which partition to boot? - Bob
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