On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 09:59:19AM -0700, [email protected] 
wrote:

You need to put the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks.
Use bootcfg.

////jerry 

> Good morning, FreeBSD enthusiasts.  On my Hewlett-Packard xw4400 workstation, 
> I had one hard drive.  I partitioned it with two slices, the first one for 
> FreeBSD 8.2 with its native file system, and the second one for a future 
> re-installation of Windows XP, to be formatted with NTFS file system.  
> FreeBSD 8.2 was then installed.  The Windows XP re-installation has not yet 
> taken place.  Recently, I installed a second hard drive on the machine that 
> was already formatted with two slices, both NTFS.  Already installed on the 
> first of these slices is the Windows XP operating system with a special 
> application program.  Already installed on the second slice is data.  It is 
> my understanding that the FreeBSD loader is supposed to be able to load any 
> operating system.  Upon power-up, the FreeBSD loader presents the following 
> screen:  
> 
> F1 Win
> F2 FreeBSD
> F5 Drive 1
> F6 PXE
> 
> If I depress F1, I receive the response "BOOTMGR is missing.  Press 
> Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart."  If I depress F2, FreeBSD loads normally.  If I 
> depress F5, I receive the response "Missing operatin system."  How can I get 
> the FreeBSD loader to load the Windows XP operating system from the second 
> hard drive?  The G.P.T. disklabel is not used by either of these operating 
> systems, so I do not believe that that is the problem.  Although the FreeBSD 
> operating system seems to see the second hard drive, it does not mount it 
> upon startup.  It does not appear in the fstab file.  I attempted to mount it 
> manually using the mount command, without success, just to see if any of the 
> data files could be read.  I ran fsidk -B on the zeroeth sector of the second 
> hard drive, but that did not seem to help.  I know that this type of issue 
> comes up repeatedly in the mailing lists, some of which I have read, but I am 
> flummoxed.  Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.  Your truly, Lee 
> Shackelfo
>  r!
> d
> 
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