RE: Easy boot between FBSD and WinXP
I use Win NT4/2k/XP's own bootmanager to boot Win 2k, Win XP, FreeBSD and Debian on only one HDD. Just be careful not to overwrite Microsoft's bootsector, their OSs won't like it ;-) See http://www.winimage.com/ on how to add FreeBSD to MS's Bootmanager. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Denis Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Easy boot between FBSD and WinXP Hi All!!! I use two hard disk. In first I have FreeBSD. In Second - WinXP. Does anybody know some easy way to boot between FBSD hard and WinXP hard? Now, I change priority of hard disks in my BIOS options it's very uncomfortable: -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [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]
Re: Easy boot between FBSD and WinXP
On Thursday 11 September 2003 23:49, Ph. Schulz wrote: I use Win NT4/2k/XP's own bootmanager to boot Win 2k, Win XP, FreeBSD and Debian on only one HDD. Just be careful not to overwrite Microsoft's bootsector, their OSs won't like it ;-) See http://www.winimage.com/ on how to add FreeBSD to MS's Bootmanager. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Denis Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Easy boot between FBSD and WinXP Hi All!!! I use two hard disk. In first I have FreeBSD. In Second - WinXP. Does anybody know some easy way to boot between FBSD hard and WinXP hard? Well, the very easiest way you can find here: http://gag.sourceforge.net/download.html Test it from Floppy/CD, configure it and if you like it, select InstallOnHarddisk. Otherwise you can use WinXp loader if you dump the first 512 byte of your FreeBSD slice and copy it to a locaten where the NT loader can read it and add the appropriate menu. You can also install the FreeBSD bootloader with sysinstall on a existing multi-os disk. -Harry Now, I change priority of hard disks in my BIOS options it's very uncomfortable: -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [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] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
RE: Easy boot between FBSD and WinXP
Hi, Denis, This sounds pretty much like my set-up. All I had to do was to let Sysinstall write a BootMgr on *both* disks. In /stand/sysinstall, just go in the Fdisk section, select your first drive, don't do anything else here, and immediately leave with Q. It will ask you if you want to write the BootMgr, a standard MBR or do nothing. Select BootMgr. You'll need to do this for each of the disks. Then leave sysinstall. When you boot, you'll see something like this (assuming XP is on the first disk (disk 0) and you have two NTFS partitions): F1 ??? F2 ??? F5 Disk 1 F1 will boot XP. Hit F5 to boot from the second disk and you'll see: F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk 0 F1 here will boot you into FreeBSD, and F5 get you back to the first selection. Note: I'm a newbie myself, but the above worked for me and doesn't require additional software. The ??? isn't pretty, but it works. Just be careful that you don't slice the disk that has XP on it. M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Denis Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 18:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Easy boot between FBSD and WinXP Hi All!!! I use two hard disk. In first I have FreeBSD. In Second - WinXP. Does anybody know some easy way to boot between FBSD hard and WinXP hard? Now, I change priority of hard disks in my BIOS options it's very uncomfortable: -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [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]
