Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:49:04 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Mikko Heiskanen <mikko@whitecortex.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dualboot winxp & freebsd Message-ID: <42EA8830.8050305@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <e30eab2604e58a156191ab8e6e07ed1d@whitecortex.net> References: <e30eab2604e58a156191ab8e6e07ed1d@whitecortex.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Mikko Heiskanen wrote: > it seems it's so common knowledge to achieve this, > that there isn't any info anywhere about it. > So, I have a winxp hard disk at the end of a sata pci-card, > and freebsd harddisk straight in the motherboard ide connection. > > So if both are connected, freebsd starts, > and if I take cabled off the freebsd harddisk, windows starts. > I cannot choose it from the bios that windows would make it first. I think you can choose 'SCSI' in your BIOS. Although it is not a SCSI controller it should work. > Secondly, I wouldn't want any gag or grub or any other "external" programs; > I'm quite sure freebsd's own bootloader can do it without problems. > > Question remains: how? I vaguely remember I had done it before. # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 // make the MBR writable temporarily # boot0cfg -B // install the boot0 boot loader See also the manpage boot0cfg(8). Regards Björn
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?42EA8830.8050305>