Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP

2004-02-01 Thread greg
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 16:05, Jud wrote: [... snip ...] BootIt, which I used for a long time, works quite nicely and automagically; so does GAG, and GAG is - not Windows-dependent, for those who care about such things - free as in beer *and* speech, for those who care about such things

Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP

2004-01-31 Thread Jud
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:09:49 -0600, greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 08:48, Mark Phillips wrote: [... snip ...] Hi Greg, I've just rebooted back into SUSE from FreeBSD. I use Grub to boot them both, and Win2k (for how often it gets used, I might as well dump it ;-)) I can

Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP

2004-01-30 Thread Mark Phillips
On Friday 30 January 2004 4:35 am, greg wrote: Try something like: Replace in /boot/grub/grub.conf something like: -- title BSD/UN*X FreeBSD 5.1 (UFS2) root (hd1,0,a) kernel /boot/loader

Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP

2004-01-30 Thread greg
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 08:48, Mark Phillips wrote: [... snip ...] Hi Greg, I've just rebooted back into SUSE from FreeBSD. I use Grub to boot them both, and Win2k (for how often it gets used, I might as well dump it ;-)) I can safely say even with UFS2 on 5.2, I can boot with There is

Booting Release 5.2 and XP

2004-01-29 Thread greg
I want to be able to dual boot into FreeBSD and Windows XP. Right now FreeBSD is booting just fine. Windows XP is on a FAT32 filesystem on the first primary partition of the second hard drive. The second hard drive is the secondary master. I am booting my system with the standard boot loader

Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP

2004-01-29 Thread K Claussen
greg wrote: I want to be able to dual boot into FreeBSD and Windows XP. Right now FreeBSD is booting just fine. Windows XP is on a FAT32 filesystem on the first primary partition of the second hard drive. The second hard drive is the secondary master. [.. snip ..] Maybe there is another boot

Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP

2004-01-29 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:51:59 -0600 greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] I have fomated the MBR on the second drive, so it is MSed. So it boots if you set the BIOS to boot from the first drive, right ? Previous to the FreeBSD install, I was dual booting Debian and the same Windows XP

Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP

2004-01-29 Thread greg
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 18:23, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:51:59 -0600 greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] I have fomated the MBR on the second drive, so it is MSed. So it boots if you set the BIOS to boot from the first drive, right ? Yes. [... Snip ...] Take a

Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP

2004-01-29 Thread greg
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 18:15, K Claussen wrote: I actually did something similar -- if not exactly the same.. the best solution that I could come up with was to use BootIt NG (http://www.bootitng.com/) to boot the system. That was the only of the approximately 15 solutions that I tried that