Hello everyone: This might sound rather foolish, but I need some assistance on how to dual boot FBSD 5.3 with WinXP. I have to Hard Drives, Windows is in the first drive, and I want to install FBSD on the second. No in the installation process I choose to create the partitions to the second Hard Drive, then it ask me if I want to install the boot manager, to which I answer yes, then it ask me where to install it, and I choose to the First Hard drive, is that ok? well, what happens is that after I choose the installer send me to disklabel to slice the Hard drive, but it show the First hard drive. am I making any sense at all? I thought that installing the boot manager was going to be a straigh forward process, is there anything wrong with what I am experiencing? Any help will be appreciated. Good night everyone
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:40:28 -0700, Didier Caamano <nemesisdivina@gennux.ca> wrote:> Hello everyone: > > This might sound rather foolish, but I need some assistance on how to > dual boot FBSD 5.3 with WinXP. > > I have to Hard Drives, Windows is in the first drive, and I want to > install FBSD on the second. No in the installation process I choose to > create the partitions to the second Hard Drive, then it ask me if I want > to install the boot manager, to which I answer yes, then it ask me where > to install it, and I choose to the First Hard drive, is that ok? well, > what happens is that after I choose the installer send me to disklabel > to slice the Hard drive, but it show the First hard drive. > > am I making any sense at all? I thought that installing the boot manager > was going to be a straigh forward process, is there anything wrong with > what I am experiencing? Any help will be appreciated.If you want Windows on the first drive, then I recommend letting the Windows boot manager handle it. The handbook page on it is here, but it seems to be missing the fact that you can find the boot file (/boot/boot1) on the install CD. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER Here's my tiny howto for fedora with a freebsd addendum: http://www.ramblingwaffles.net/DualBoot -- Jared Earle :: http://www.23x.net jearle@gmail.com :: There is no SPORK
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:40:28 -0700 Didier Caamano <nemesisdivina@gennux.ca> wrote:> Hello everyone: > > This might sound rather foolish, but I need some assistance on how to > dual boot FBSD 5.3 with WinXP. >It is rather foolish, but like I should talk...I set it up just a few weeks ago. First off, I left the FreeBSD boot manager out of the picture. I used the bootpart utility (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) to automagically get my boot.ini set up correctly for the windows boot loader so that FreeBSD is now listed as an option. Then I set FreeBSD to be the default and the countdown to 11 seconds from the original 30. :) -- Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net> <endx7@users.sf.net> <robin.schoonover@gmail.com> # Oh wow! Everything seems so cosmic! Your spider-sense is tingling... # -- Nethack 3.1.3
Thanks a lot for the help, I ended up using GAG (http://gag.sourceforge.net/)it was pretty easy to install and configure. Nevertheless, I'll keep all the suggestions given in this thread for future references. Once again, I thank you all for your help Have a nice day