Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:02:26 -0500 From: Nadav Ben-Ami <nadav3333@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Using the boot-easy boot loader.. Message-ID: <41904F62.1090104@earthlink.net>
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Hello.. I am currently running FreeBSD 5.2.1, installing of OS'es is really not a hard task for me, except this one time and it has to do with WINDOWS XP on my primary hardrive (IDE1). Problem is this: Since I am running Windows XP on my primary C drive, and I goto install the FreeBSD boot easy loader(Option 1), there was a time when by doing just that, It destroyed the MBR of my primary drive! Strange as it may seem, though why would windows xp be destroyed if I tried to install on a separate physical hard drive (D:/) the free bsd boot loader? I am some what "scared" to even bother with a boot loader. Please advise on what I can do to make windows XP allow another OS like FREEBSD to work though its on a separate drive. Synopsis of problem: XP installed on primary master (ad0), and freebsd installed taking up whole secondary master drive (ad1), goto install freebsd boot loader... CAN'T BOOT BACK INTO WINDOWS XP, AND ALL IS LOST.. I did not choose install standard MBR, I chose option #1 for install freebsd boot easy loader on drive ad1!!, not ad0!! help.. Erik
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