dual-booting with xp
Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a machine that already has XP installed. It has 3 SCSI drives. I would like to keep XP on the first drive, and install FreeBSD on the third drive and make it dual-boot. What's the easiest way? When I installed, I made a slice on the 3rd disk (using entire disk) and created my partitions there. I also selected the FreeBSD bootmanager, but it doesn't seem to write to the first disk, so now when I reboot, I don't get a bootmanager menu at all, but go right into XP every time. Thanks, Duane ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual-booting with xp
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:15:02 -0500 Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a machine that already has XP installed. It has 3 SCSI drives. I would like to keep XP on the first drive, and install FreeBSD on the third drive and make it dual-boot. What's the easiest way? You're way. When I installed, I made a slice on the 3rd disk (using entire disk) and created my partitions there. I also selected the FreeBSD bootmanager, but it doesn't seem to write to the first disk, so now when I reboot, I don't get a bootmanager menu at all, but go right into XP every time. Write it to the first disk also: # sysinstall - Configure - Fdisk - select the first disk - (q) fdisk without touching anything - BootMng [Enter] - exit sysinstall or see the FAQ; you could boot it with XP loader to. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual-booting with xp
Hi, Start in windows xp and use bootpart from: http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm List your partition of your disks with this tool and have look where freebsd is installed. (It is a nice freeware tool and you don't risk any damage to the partition table!) You can than create with Bootpart a 512 byte file that contains an image of your freebsd boot sector. Bootpart will copie it to c:\ (for example). It can even add the correct text string and references to your newly created (for example) freebsd.bin file in boot.ini. good luck Messages d´origine De: Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: jeudi, janvier 15, 2004 5:22 pm Objet: Re: dual-booting with xp On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:15:02 -0500 Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a machine that already has XP installed. It has 3 SCSI drives. I would like to keep XP on the first drive, and install FreeBSD on the third drive and make it dual-boot. What's the easiest way? You're way. When I installed, I made a slice on the 3rd disk (using entire disk) and created my partitions there. I also selected the FreeBSD bootmanager, but it doesn't seem to write to the first disk, so now when I reboot, I don't get a bootmanager menu at all, but go right into XP every time. Write it to the first disk also: # sysinstall - Configure - Fdisk - select the first disk - (q) fdisk without touching anything - BootMng [Enter] - exit sysinstall or see the FAQ; you could boot it with XP loader to. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual-booting with xp
Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a machine that already has XP installed. It has 3 SCSI drives. I would like to keep XP on the first drive, and install FreeBSD on the third drive and make it dual-boot. What's the easiest way? When I installed, I made a slice on the 3rd disk (using entire disk) and created my partitions there. I also selected the FreeBSD bootmanager, but it doesn't seem to write to the first disk, so now when I reboot, I don't get a bootmanager menu at all, but go right into XP every time. Well, that is all good, but it sounds like you didn't choose to install an MBR when you installed FreeBSD. It asks that on one of the screens along about the middle of the process. It offers three options as follows: BootMgr Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager Standard Install a standard MBR (no boot manager) None Leave the Master Boot Record untouched You need to install the FreeBSD Boot Manager (or another third party boot manager) on every disk that will have bootable slices. That includes the first disk that you are leaving MS stuff on. The reason is found in the boot process. Somewhat simplified and glossed over, it is: The BIOS runs and runs down its list of bootable devices in order of the list. Typically that is 1: Floppy Disk 2: CDrom 3: Hard disk For Hard disk, it is only smart enough to look at the first one. The BIOS hands over boot control to the first of these devices that it finds a boot record on (please pardon the grammar). If you only have one disk (the first disk) with one bootable slice (the first slice) you don't need a Master Boot Record because there is no choice needed to be made. It just uses the boot block on that first slice. But, that is not what you are trying to do. You are trying to multi-boot. So, you need the MBR. The code in the Master Boot Record on that device does a few things and then if it is set up to boot multiple slices, lets you choose which one of the slices to boot. Each of those slices needs to have a boot block on it. The boot block on the slice finishes some stuff and starts the rest of the boot process for whichever OS you have on that slice. If the Choice is to boot from a disk other than the first one, you have to select that device when the MBR offers the choices and then it jumps to the MBR on that other disk and gives you a choice of bootable slices on that drive. So, you need the MBR on each disk with bootable slices along with the OS boot block. The FreeBSD MBR will work quite fine. It is a very small one and as such doesn't allow you to customize the displays it shows up for the choices. Typically it recognizes and displays meaningful text for FreeBSD and LINUX but puts either '???' or 'DOS' for the Microsloth systems no matter what they are. But, as long as you don't care about how pretty it is it works just fun to select them. I am currently typing on a machine that is dual booted with XP and FreeBSD 4.9. The MBR offers choices of ???, DOS and FreeBSD. The ??? is a Dell diagnostic slice, the DOS is the XP and, of course, FreeBSD is FreeBSD. But, if you want, you can install one of the other third party Master Boot Records such as Grub if you like. There are a bunch of then with varying ease of use and varying size and prettiness. jerry Thanks, Duane ___ [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]
