Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the handbook. I recall

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: If you select F5 (maybe F6 or more, I should try that some time) it will instead cause the MBR from that second (maybe third, etc) disk to be loaded and passes control to it. F5 moves to the next disk. From that next disk F5 moves on to the next disk again and so

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:39:05PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: If you select F5 (maybe F6 or more, I should try that some time) it will instead cause the MBR from that second (maybe third, etc) disk to be loaded and passes control to it. F5 moves to the next

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread RW
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:37:26 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks, or

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread RW
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:49:23 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:39:05PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: (*) Actually I have no idea what would happen if you stuck some other booter like grub or gag on a later disk. But blank (new) disk or Windows MBR

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:52:52PM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:37:26 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also mention

Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Sam Jones
I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and when the computer boots, it displays: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 When I press F5, FreeBSD loads and

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:36, Sam Jones said: I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and when the computer boots, it displays: F1

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 01 March 2007 13:21, Beech Rintoul said: On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:36, Sam Jones said: I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Sam Jones wrote: I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and when the computer boots, it

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread RW
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the handbook. I recall reading that too, but I've never understood what it's supposed