Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:15:22 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Colin Harford <colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting multiple OS Message-ID: <3C8B869A.7040105@cream.org> References: <B8B0758C.71C2%colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca>
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Colin Harford wrote: >On my primary master is my windows XP drive and my secondary master is my >FreeBSD 4.5-stable drive. > >How would I go about setting up a boot manager on either of these two drives >to be able to choose which OS I wish to load. > >This is of course, without having to reformat either of them. > Simply type : fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 <device> while using FreeBSD. You'll need to do this for both drives, changing <device> to ad0 then ad1 (assuming that you have IDE drives). This can also be done under windows using the bootinst.exe utility and boot.bin file, both available from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.5-RELEASE/tools All of this information was available from the handbook : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html and the Multi-OS article http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/ Hope this helps. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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