On 6/21/05, Mac Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a machine with FreeBSD on it. Recently, I added another drive, > on which I put Windows. Given that I don't really trust the Windows > install program with my MBR, I unplugged the FreeBSD drive during the > install. > > Now, the FreeBSD bootloader can't load windows; if I unplug the FreeBSD > drive again, windows boots up happily, but I don't much like the idea of > un-plugging and re-plugging drives to make things work. > > The FreeBSD bootloader notes that there are two drives installed, but > picking either one of them results in BSD booting up, not windows. > > How do I go about teaching the FreeBSD bootloader how to boot Windows? > > ("Replace it with grub" is a reasonable answer, but I'd rather not go to > the trouble, if it's possible)
I am having exactly the same problem, but with FreeBSD and NetWare, and am looking for a solution to it. I did not actually unplug the drives but just disabled the secondary IDE controller in BIOS (where FreeBSD was installed) before installing NetWare. -- Dmitry "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"