Gayn Winters wrote:
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Benjamin Sher
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:21 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!
Dear friends:
I decided to go out and buy the latest issue of Linux Format with the
FreeBSD 6 CD. I am very glad I did. FreeBSD is tough to install, but
after spending several hours I finally succeeded in doing a perfect
installation. ONE BIG PROBLEM: When I removed the CD and
rebooted, I got
into my Windows XP (I have two separate disks, one for
Windows, one of
FreeBSD). There was no way to get into FreeBSD. Naturally, I
went into
my BIOS and changed the boot sequence from CD to Hard Drive.
That only
caused my system to boot into Windows XP.
I read the instructions about the FreeBSD Boot Manager. It
said clearly
that it should allow switching from one OS to another. But I
did not see
any configuration for that. How, may I ask, do I do this while
installing FreeBSD? How do I change this configuration to
guarantee that
all my work won't go down the toilet and that when I reboot,
I will see
Lilo or whatever as a boot manager that will allow me to
select either
FreeBSD or Windows?
I am looking forward to solving this and then to actually
seeing FreeBSD
for the first time.
Thank you so much in advance.
Benjamin
Always more than one way to skin a cat. :-)
A rather easy way to do what you want without having to touch your
Windows installation is to use the free GAG bootloader - <URL:
http://gag.sourceforge.net/>. The installation instructions seem pretty
self-explanatory to me, but if you have any questions, feel free to
ask. It's what I've used for years to boot triple or quadruple OS
systems, and I've never had a problem.
Jud
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