Re: Problem booting WinXP from second drive

[Jud]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:36:27 -0800, Relayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have a machine with FreeBSD 4.2 running on one drive.  I wanted to try  
dual booting and mucking about with wine, so I decided to install WinXP  
as well.  To avoid messing up my primary drive, I thought I would be  
able to accomplish the process in the following way:

1.  disconnect primary drive
2.  connect second drive (so it looks like the only one in the PC) and  
install WinXP on it
3.  verify that WinXP boots off this drive
4.  install FreeBSD boot loader on this drive
5.  verify that WinXP boots using FreeBSD boot loader

All works as expected to this point.

Then I hook up the primary drive again and reboot.  I see the following  
at boot time:

F1: FreeBSD
F2: FreeBSD
F5: Drive 1
I hit F5.  Then I see

F1: DOS
F5: Drive 0
When I hit F1, I expect WinXP to boot.  But nothing happens.  The  
machine just sits there.  I have scanned a lot of material in the  
Handbook and on google today and yesterday, but I cannot figure out what  
I did wrong.  Does anybody have any ideas that don't involve using grub  
or gag or something else?
The sleight-of-hand with the drives is unnecessary.  :)  Let Windows stay  
on the first drive where it wants to be.  FreeBSD is happy on the second  
drive.  The FreeBSD boot loader must be installed on *both* drives.

The loader will call your XP drive ??? if it's formatted using NTFS.  It  
will boot XP just fine, it's just that there are several OSs that have  
filesystems resembling NTFS (e.g., OS/2 and QNX), and the FreeBSD  
bootloader doesn't have the extra space used by fancier bootloaders to  
store multiple user-selectable names.

Jud
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Re: Problem booting WinXP from second drive

[greg]

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 15:36, Relayer wrote:
[... snip ...]
 Then I hook up the primary drive again and reboot.  I see the following at boot time:
 
 F1: FreeBSD
 F2: FreeBSD
 F5: Drive 1
 
 I hit F5.  Then I see
 
 F1: DOS
 F5: Drive 0
 
 When I hit F1, I expect WinXP to boot.  But nothing happens.  The machine just sits 
 there.  I have scanned a lot of material in the Handbook and on google today and 
 yesterday, but I cannot figure out what I did wrong.  Does anybody have any ideas 
 that don't involve using grub or gag or something else?
 
 Thanks
 
 OP

I have the same setup.

With that setup, you pretty much have to use GRUB or GAG (I suggest GAG,
it works wonderfully). The issue is that Windows needs to think it is
the first hard drive. GRUB and GAG can fool windows into thinking it is
on the first drive.

If you do not wish to install these boot loaders, you will have to
change your cabling so that Windows is on the first drive and change
your BIOS to boot off the second. Then the BSD loader will be able to
boot Windows (AFAIK).

PS: Sorry about miss-interpreting the message the first time I responded
to you personally.
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greg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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