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 > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
