Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:57:49 -0700 From: Andrew Falanga <excalibur@icehouse.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Additional dual boot issues Message-ID: <43AA081D.3050800@icehouse.net>
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Ok, I was following my post in usenet (didn't know that messages posted here were propogated there, cool). Someone responded to another chap who was having a similar problem as mine that the issue was probably that they hadn't loaded the FreeBSD bootloader on to the second drive. So, I did this: # as root dd if=/dev/ad0 of=mbr.ad0 bs=512 count=1 boot0cfg -B ad0 In my system, the IDE drive (with windows) is ad0 and the SATA drive with FreeBSD is ad4. Now, when I'm presented with F1 - FreeBSD F5 - Drive1 I press F5 and am presented with F1 - DOS F5 - Drive0 This differs in that when I was presented with F5 on the first menu I'd press it and FreeBSD would boot. Now, it appears to try to boot Windows but all that happens is I get a blank screen for a few seconds then the machine does a soft reboot and I'm back to the bootloader prompts after the BIOS does its thing. What could be the issue now? Andy P.S. What does 'ad' mean in ad0, ad1 ... adN? Also, remember that I'm not a member of this list. Please respond to me directly when you respond to the list as well. Someone who responded last time mentioned a gmail account, or something, if that is some sort of "work-around" for folks like me with limited space for e-mail, I'd like to know more.
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