At 10:24 AM 8/27/2005, Barnaby Scott wrote:
I know questions like this have been asked before, but I can't find a
straight answer! Forgive me though if I have missed one.
I have a Windows 2000 machine into which I wanted to put an extra hard
disk to run FreeBSD. In my pre-installation reading, I noticed that
FreeBSD offers a mechanism to boot alternative operating systems, so I
opted to put the new FreeBSD disk as 0, and move the original Windows one
to position 1.
Installation went fine, and I opted to install with the bootloader, and
sure enough, on startup I get a little menu saying:
F1 FreeBSD
F5 Disk 1
If I press F1, FreeBSD boots as expected.
However, if I press F5 (it seems I have to do this twice otherwise I get
FreeBSD again), I get a prompt saying
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:
Now what?
It doesn't seem to matter what I put here, it won't make Windows start. Is
there something particular I should enter? Have I missed something else?
The boot: prompt is the second stage of the FreeBSD boot
process. There's no way to get it to boot windows as that point.
Additionally, moving the windows disk is likely to confuse the hell
out of windows. Your best bet is probably to use the windows boot
manager, and have FreeBSD installed on the second disk.
For info on how to deal with the windows boot loader, go here:
http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/2337
-Glenn
Please, if you reply, go easy with me - there is a strong chance I won't
understand! If you want to suggest that I copy something to somewhere for
instance, or install something, *please* spell out in words of one
syllable
how. I dont' want to be spoon-fed for ever, but I haven't even got off the
initial prompt after login yet!!
Thanks
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