Re: dual boot winxp 9.1-rc3

2012-12-03 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: On an old 20gb hard drive I first installed winxp on the first half of the HD. winxp booted fine. Then I installed 9.1-rc3 on the second half of the HD. Now when I boot the HD I only get 9.1-rc3. Winxp created mbr and

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-27 Thread from_mars
Hi. Sorry for my english. I have a dual boot system, windows 7 64-bit (ada1) and FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 GEOM (ada0). I did it by installing FreeBSD boot0 on Windows HDD: boot0cfg -B ada1 then I choose Windows HDD as first boot drive in BIOS. Now at boot i have boot0 menu: F1 - Win

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-24 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be contradictory. I am not

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread doug
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have been searching through questions and forums for information on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 already on it. My problem is that the posts seem to go around in circles and be contradictory. I am not sure which to

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:41:22 Jerry McAllister wrote: Since each system is going to be on different physical drives, why don't you make things easy for you and just use the BIOS boot menu to choose which drive to boot from? That surely seems the hard way.Why interrupt the boot and

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/23/12 14:49, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have a dual boot system, windows 7 (ad0) and FreeBSD 9-stable (ad1). I moved back to BIOS boot after (I think) windows upgrade stabbed ad0. I found the system with a blank screen in the AM. Using BIOS boot, The first windows screen had an

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I've always meant to submit it as a PR, but found the send-pr(1) too daunting. (It is impossible/undesirable for me to have a working mail sender on my system and I have not yet found a way for send-pr(1) to work in offline mode for delayed sending by a different machine.) Easy. Just run

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread perryh
Gyrd Thane Lange gyrd...@thanelange.no wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... The code in i386/boot2 and lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a BSD partition of an fdisk primary partition (aka slice), or in a GPT partition, and

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:56:51 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Gyrd Thane Lange gyrd...@thanelange.no wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... The code in i386/boot2 and lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a BSD partition of

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:52:16 +0200 Gyrd Thane Lange gyrd...@thanelange.no wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:56:51 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Gyrd Thane Lange gyrd...@thanelange.no wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... The code in

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-26 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: d...@safeport.com wrote: If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, that would be a very useful howto. _Installing_ it in an extended partition is easy enough. geom(8) understands extended partitions (although

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:24, d...@safeport.com wrote: I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not work. The answer is found in

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 09:08 24/06/2011, you wrote: On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:24, d...@safeport.com wrote: I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not work. The answer is found in

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread doug
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Eduardo Morras wrote: At 09:08 24/06/2011, you wrote: On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:24, d...@safeport.com wrote: I installed 8.2 from the DVD ISO. This install overwrote the MBR even though I selected not to write a boot record. Using the repair disk and/or bootrec does not

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 16:36 24/06/2011, d...@safeport.com wrote: Well for me it all worked well for all versions of FreeBSD until Windows 7. My main purpose was to document the link given to me by a friend who does user support for a local college. Before Vista the boot process was pretty simple, the MBR was one

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread doug
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Eduardo Morras wrote: At 16:36 24/06/2011, d...@safeport.com wrote: Well for me it all worked well for all versions of FreeBSD until Windows 7. My main purpose was to document the link given to me by a friend who does user support for a local college. Before Vista the

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-24 Thread perryh
d...@safeport.com wrote: If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, that would be a very useful howto. _Installing_ it in an extended partition is easy enough. geom(8) understands extended partitions (although sysinstall does not, so you need to install using Fixit# as for other

Re: dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi, Did you tried BSD Boot Manager? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html Laci From: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:14:11 PM Subject: dual boot

Re: Dual Boot FreeBSD/Windows 2003 Server

2008-11-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to setup a test server that will be able to boot either FreeBSD to Windows Server 2003 R2. I have tried to use the BSD Boot manager and the Windows Boot manager. In either case I have run into problems. When using the

Re: Dual Boot Vista - Large Sector Issue

2007-10-15 Thread compunction
The issue is not setting up a dual boot system. The issue is FDISK displaying an error relating to the new rules MS is using when setting up a partition under Vista. Based on the research covered here ( http://www.multibooters.co.uk/partitions.html) if you use the Vista installer to create the

Re: Dual Boot Vista - Large Sector Issue

2007-10-07 Thread beni
On Thursday 04 October 2007 00:57:19 compunction wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD on the same drive as Vista in a dual boot configuration. FDISK is reporting the normal geometry errors and it is also stating that my Vista partition does not start on a sector boundary. I chose to ignore

Re: Dual Boot Vista - Large Sector Issue

2007-10-03 Thread rachie
I was able to install FreeBSD alongside Vista on my HP laptop. What I did was I shrank down the windows partition using Partition Magic. Its not normal NTFS according to Partition Magic. But after I shrank it down I just booted from the FreeBSD install cd and installed it like normal, was

Re: Dual boot FreeBSD(6.2) / Current ?

2007-07-13 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Hello, How to make a dual boot with Stable and Current ? The FreeBSD loader always uses the bsd partition 'a' to load the kernel. So i always boot 6.2. My main boot loader is Gag. Perhaps install the depeendant filesystems (/, /var, /usr) for the two versions

Re: Dual boot FreeBSD(6.2) / Current ?

2007-07-13 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
On 7/13/07, CyberLeo Kitsana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Hello, How to make a dual boot with Stable and Current ? The FreeBSD loader always uses the bsd partition 'a' to load the kernel. So i always boot 6.2. My main boot loader is Gag. Perhaps install the

Re: Dual boot.

2007-05-31 Thread sac
On 5/30/07, Paul Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed 6.2 on a 90GB drive. During the installation I created the usual partitions and left 50GB untouched. I then rebooted ran partition magic to put a DOS FS on the remainder then ghosted XP pro onto it. What is the process now to

Re: Dual boot.

2007-05-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Paul Halliday wrote: I just installed 6.2 on a 90GB drive. During the installation I created the usual partitions and left 50GB untouched. I then rebooted ran partition magic to put a DOS FS on the remainder then ghosted XP pro onto it. Do I need to start over or can I fix this? It's

Re: Dual boot.

2007-05-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 07:17:01AM -0300, Paul Halliday wrote: I just installed 6.2 on a 90GB drive. During the installation I created the usual partitions and left 50GB untouched. I then rebooted ran partition magic to put a DOS FS on the remainder then ghosted XP pro onto it. What is the

Re: Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

2007-02-14 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:46:18 -0800 Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:51:52 -0500 (EST) Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Howdy, Hello, This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I require, removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the Vista/Microsoft flames at the door) When I install

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:04:57PM -0500, Jeff Palmer wrote: Do you really need to use Grub to replace the FreeBSD MBR? I haven't had my hands on Vista yet - in no hurry either - but I think it should boot Vista OK. I've use it for several other MS versions from Win-95 - Win 2K - Xp-Pro

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-13 Thread pete wright
On 2/13/07, Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I require, removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the Vista/Microsoft

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven't dug into why, but I'm confident there is a reason. Obviously, grub becomes a non-option.

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-13 Thread Questions
On 2/13/07, Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I require, removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the Vista/Microsoft

Re: Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

2007-02-13 Thread Questions
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven't dug into why, but I'm confident there is a reason. Obviously, grub becomes a non-option.

Re: Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

2007-02-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:51:52 -0500 (EST) Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven't dug

Re: Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

2007-02-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
RW wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:51:52 -0500 (EST) Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven't dug

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-06-10 22:44, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: much excised --- Anyway, this all works just fine. The MBR and initial boot record in the boot sector of each slice (or primary partition if you must degrade to MS terminology) have just enough standardization that

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread RW
On Saturday 10 June 2006 11:55, Hunter Fuller wrote: On 10 Jun 2006, at 11:45 AM, julien Chaffraix wrote: Hello, chainloader +1 Well, this is a different way to do it, usually this is used with Microsuck products... but I suppose it'd work here too. If you chainload you don't need UFS

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread RW
On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But that is the same. IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft term. I'm being

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But that is the same. IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft term.

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread julien Chaffraix
Hello, I have made the same configuration (Debian and FreeBSD). I used Grub and it works very well, here is the entry in menu.lst: title FreeBSD root(hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 savedefault boot (It is strange that the entry is not the same as the previous answer

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello; If I want to set up a dual boot of either Linux or FreeBSD, what is the best way to go about it? Use Lilo, grub, or does FreeBSD have a boot loader that it likes better and Linux won't object to? Mabye you are using the term 'boot loader' for what I am used to seeing called the

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 10 Jun 2006, at 11:45 AM, julien Chaffraix wrote: Hello, I have made the same configuration (Debian and FreeBSD). I used Grub and it works very well, here is the entry in menu.lst: I'll tell you which of these were different and why... title FreeBSD root(hd0,0)

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Jun 10, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello; If I want to set up a dual boot of either Linux or FreeBSD, what is the best way to go about it? Use Lilo, grub, or does FreeBSD have a boot loader that it likes better and Linux won't object to? Mabye you are

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 10 June 2006 18:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Jun 10, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello; If I want to set up a dual boot of either Linux or FreeBSD, what is the best way to go about it? Use Lilo, grub, or does FreeBSD have a boot loader that it likes

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
much excised --- Anyway, this all works just fine. The MBR and initial boot record in the boot sector of each slice (or primary partition if you must degrade to MS terminology) have just enough standardization that the FreeBSD MBR or most any of the other more fancy ones, can

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 10 June 2006 18:44, Jerry McAllister wrote: much excised --- Anyway, this all works just fine. The MBR and initial boot record in the boot sector of each slice (or primary partition if you must degrade to MS terminology) have just enough standardization that the

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Beech Rintoul wrote: Maybe it can be a FAQ. How do they get there? jerry I'd ask that question on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. I've never submitted anything to any of the docs, so I have no clue what their procedure is. Beech Probably something like this: 1. Chat it up on the

Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD

2006-06-09 Thread Hunter Fuller
Grub does well for me. Set it up for Linux and then set it up for BSD, making sure the UFS driver's in there. Here's my command-list for booting FBSD. root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader boot I might have the spacing wrong, I'm doing it from memory, but the data's all there. On 10 Jun

Re: Dual Boot, Boot manager

2005-10-05 Thread Peter Clutton
On 10/6/05, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 5.4 on a second drive and I realize now the boot manager I installed is on the second drive and not loaded in the MBR of my Primary drive. Is there a way to load the FreeBSD boot manager onto my primary drive from within windows?

Re: Dual boot solution

2005-09-26 Thread K Wieland
I haven't done enough installations recently to answer. Are you saying that if you leave the fdisk screen with no primary partition marked active or with the MSFT one marked active, then it switches it to the soon-to-be-FreeBSD one? One of the installer's help files says: If no slice is

Re: Dual boot solution

2005-09-21 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
K Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anyone could add to this I would be interested. I suppose that you say Even if you choose not to alter the MBR. because of the last install menu item below { { BootMgr, Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager, { Standard, Install a standard

Re: Dual boot solution

2005-09-21 Thread K Wieland
On Sep 21, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: K Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anyone could add to this I would be interested. I suppose that you say Even if you choose not to alter the MBR. because of the last install menu item below { { BootMgr,Install the

Re: dual boot with freebsd boot loader

2005-08-02 Thread Björn König
Petre Bandac wrote: I have the following configuration ad0s1 - win xp with ntfs ad0s2 - freebsd they were installed in the above order, so now I can use only freebsd is there a way to configure freebsd's boot loader to be able to boot from the win partition (I googled around and found

Re: dual boot with freebsd boot loader

2005-08-02 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/2/05, Petre Bandac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello I have the following configuration ad0s1 - win xp with ntfs ad0s2 - freebsd they were installed in the above order, so now I can use only freebsd is there a way to configure freebsd's boot loader to be able to boot from the win

Re: dual boot

2005-07-08 Thread Igor Robul
Ultimate wrote: Obviously, I am a newbi ... so further illustration with the solution would be appreciated 1) Do as root sysctl kern.geom.debugflag=16 2) Start sysinstall 3) Go Configure-FDISK- OK - Q 4) It will ask if you wish boot manager 5) Select BootMgr

Thanks Garrett -- Re: dual boot

2005-07-08 Thread Ultimate
I got something from Igor which worked 1) Do as root sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 2) Start sysinstall 3) Go Configure-FDISK- OK - Q 4) It will ask if you wish boot manager 5) Select BootMgr --- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultimate wrote: # fdisk -l fdisk: illegal

Re: Dual Boot question

2005-05-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, May 17, 2005 01:14:35 PM -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I select FreeBSD, the box boots to a prompt, flashing F1 and goes no further, periodically beeping. Never mind. It was waiting for me to hit enter. Now all I have to do is change the default boot to FreeBSD

RE: Dual-boot WinXP: FreeBSD slice within 8GB? Space for EasyBoot?

2005-03-28 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Maude User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 3:40 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dual-boot WinXP: FreeBSD slice within 8GB? Space for EasyBoot? Hello - I'm going to install FreeBSD to make a dual-boot laptop

Re: Dual-boot WinXP: FreeBSD slice within 8GB? Space for EasyBoot?

2005-03-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello - I'm going to install FreeBSD to make a dual-boot laptop (keeping WinXP-Pro). It has 60GB on a single hard drive, currently one big NTFS partition (C:) - which I will shrink down to about 16GB with PartitionMagic, leaving a new generic FAT or FAT32 slice which FreeBSD will

Re: Dual boot + scripted install?

2005-03-24 Thread Mike Peterson
All of this is FreeBSD 5.2.1, if it matters. I'm trying to do a scripted install / Jumpstart using PXE booting and 'install.cfg'; all works fine when assigning the entire disk to FreeBSD. When I change to have 'install.cfg' select the free disk space left after WinXP is installed in slice 1, it

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread RW
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:44, Gary Kline wrote: The first CD boots 5.3 ad brings up /stand/sysinstall. Every options I have tries sees the NTFS as ad0s1. Is there another choice to chose to divvy up the drive to give me more than three slices? This is where the

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:22:43PM +, RW wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:44, Gary Kline wrote: The first CD boots 5.3 ad brings up /stand/sysinstall. Every options I have tries sees the NTFS as ad0s1. Is there another choice to chose to divvy up the drive to

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote: If memory servers, the slices I created were ad0s2 / ad0s3 SWAP ad0s4 /usr People normally create a BSD partition table within an FDISK partition, so / would be on ad0s2a, rather than using all of ad0s2 for a

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Ean Kingston
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:22:43PM +, RW wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:44, Gary Kline wrote: The first CD boots 5.3 ad brings up /stand/sysinstall. Every options I have tries sees the NTFS as ad0s1. Is there another choice to chose to divvy up the drive to give

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote: If memory servers, the slices I created were ad0s2 / ad0s3 SWAP ad0s4 /usr People normally create a BSD partition table within an FDISK partition, so /

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread RW
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 19:28, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote: If memory servers, the slices I created were ad0s2 / ad0s3 SWAP ad0s4 /usr People normally create a

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread RW
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 20:05, RW wrote: Even if you don't plan to use it you should do that to see what the default looks like. Don't forget to delete the three partitions and create a single large slice, if you try to create a default set of partitions on a slice dimensioned to take /

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:05:57PM +, RW wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 19:28, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote: If memory servers, the slices I created were ad0s2 / ad0s3

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread RW
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 21:05, Gary Kline wrote: ks like. Yeah, I wound up trying the defaults because my custom creates failed. With thr auto defaults newfs works, but I error out on /usr. /usr is large.So the mount will fail, etc. (??) Maybe a smaller /usr

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-22 Thread jason henson
Gary Kline wrote: I'm having trouble installing 5.3 from my 4CD set. I have a 10G Window partition; That leaves 3 slices available. I have tried various sizes for /, SWAP, and /usr, but newfs consistantly has trouble mounting /usr. I have no idea why.

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:44:46PM -0500, jason henson wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I'm having trouble installing 5.3 from my 4CD set. I have a 10G Window partition; That leaves 3 slices available. I have tried various sizes for /, SWAP, and /usr, but newfs

Re: dual boot two disk

2005-03-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi I have a problem booting the second disk with fbsd's boot manager. I installed a new disk as pri/master (ad0) and moved my old disk to sec/master (ad2). Then devided ad0 (40GB) with fbsd's fdisk in 10G (ufs) and 30G (fat) and installed FreeBSD 5.3 with a boot manager on the first

Re: dual boot two disk

2005-03-17 Thread Perica Veljanovski
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi I have a problem booting the second disk with fbsd's boot manager. I installed a new disk as pri/master (ad0) and moved my old disk to sec/master (ad2). Then devided ad0 (40GB) with fbsd's fdisk in 10G (ufs) and 30G (fat) and installed FreeBSD 5.3 with a boot manager

Re: dual boot two disk

2005-03-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi I have a problem booting the second disk with fbsd's boot manager. I installed a new disk as pri/master (ad0) and moved my old disk to sec/master (ad2). Then devided ad0 (40GB) with fbsd's fdisk in 10G (ufs) and 30G (fat) and installed FreeBSD 5.3 with a

Re: Dual boot FreeBSD 4.10 and FreeBSD 5.3

2005-03-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
I'm about to make the switch from 4.10 to 5.3. However, I don't want to do it in one go, but rather first install 5.3 on a separate physical disk and get all applications installed and configured correctly. Once I've completed the process, the scenario is a RAID-1 setup (gmirror is the

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. The machine will have one IDE disk. Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having to re-install XP ? Yup. The very best way. The only funny thing is that the standard FreeBSD MBR will put ?? in the

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Greg Barniskis
David Larkin wrote: I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. The machine will have one IDE disk. Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having to re-install XP ? Ive searched the mailing list and found info on how to achieve dual boot with multiple

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
David Larkin wrote: I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. The machine will have one IDE disk. Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having to re-install XP ? Ive searched the mailing list and found info on how to achieve dual

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Greg Barniskis thusly... David Larkin wrote: I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. The machine will have one IDE disk. Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having to re-install XP ? Consider

Re: Dual boot with XP

2005-03-01 Thread Stevan Tiefert
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, David Larkin wrote: I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. The machine will have one IDE disk. Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having to re-install XP ? Ive searched the mailing list and found info on how to

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-30 Thread tethys ocean
http://ipucu.enderunix.org/view.php?id=70lang=en On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:44:28 -0700, Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-30 Thread Tom Connolly
tethys ocean wrote: http://ipucu.enderunix.org/view.php?id=70lang=en Hey great info on this. One question, he has assumed that we are going to put WinXP and FreeBSD on the same drive so in his setup config he has: #this is the name that will appear on the boot menu title FreeBSD #this is

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-29 Thread Tom Connolly
Jud wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:12:33 -0700, Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And here is the link: http://www.crtech.com/sinda.html I don't see anything in ports. Googling turned up some FEA stuff with what appeared to be fairly nice CAD backends that work on Linux and

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-29 Thread Adam Fabian
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:44:28PM -0700, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-28 Thread Tom Connolly
Yes go ahead and install the BSD boot loader on the XP drive. It will work fine. BTW I haven't come across many Sorry does not work under FreeBSD messages. Could you tell us something about that thermal monitor? I think there must be some compatible port. Yes the program is called SIMBA.

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-28 Thread Tom Connolly
Jud wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:44:28 -0700, Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-28 Thread Tom Connolly
Jud wrote: A bit of Googling found that SIMBA is based on Matlab and Simulink from Mathworks. Here's an email re getting those programs to work on FreeBSD Terribly sorry Jud. The program is actually called SINDA not SIMBA. SINDA/Fluint to be exact. Sorry for the typo. Any ideas on this?

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-28 Thread Tom Connolly
And here is the link: http://www.crtech.com/sinda.html Thanks, Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-28 Thread Luke
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot manager/loader on the XP drive? I

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-28 Thread Jud
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:12:33 -0700, Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And here is the link: http://www.crtech.com/sinda.html I don't see anything in ports. Googling turned up some FEA stuff with what appeared to be fairly nice CAD backends that work on Linux and (occasionally) Unix, a

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-28 Thread Scott Bennett
Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Bennett wrote: Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Monday 27 December 2004 06:44 pm, Tom Connolly wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot manager/loader on

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Jud
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:44:28 -0700, Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot

Re: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Scott Bennett
Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and have it dual boot with the existing Windows XP system (separate HD). Can I just simply go through the FreeBSD install and have it install the FreeBSD boot manager/loader on the XP drive? I

RE: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-27 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Connolly Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 5:14 To: FreeBSD_Questions Subject: Dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD 5.3 Hello list. I wish to put FreeBSD 5.3 on a new hard drive and

Re: Dual Boot with Windows XP

2004-11-13 Thread Brian Bobowski
Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: My first IDE drive is (on IDE 0 - master) with windows XP controlling it MBR. My second IDE drive (on IDE 0 - slave) is with FreeBSD 5.3 controlling it MBR. How can I do to configure the boot loader and the scripts: loader.rc and loader.conf to

Re: Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x

2004-03-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:10:38 -0800 Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be able

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