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after looking everywhere for hours, I can't find a solution to this:

Hard drive 0: Windows XP
Hard drive 1: FreeBSD 4.7

Is there a way to use XP boot manager (boot.ini) to let me boot FreeBSD
on the second hard drive?

I found solutions about copying /boot/boot1 on Windows disk and refer to
it in boot.ini, but it doesn't work if the two OS are not on the same disk.

My BIOS gives me the opportunity to boot from the second hard drive, so
could I use a boot manager in FreeBSD from the second hard drive to boot
Windows XP on the first hard drive?

If so, could you point me to some documentation (I read a bit about
FreeBSD's boot manager, but it's kind of Chinese to me...)

PS: Please, I don't need replies like: "post on Microsoft newsgroup" or
"install FreeBSD on first hard drive"... I'm quite sure someone else ran
into a similar situation in the past...

Thanks!

I don't know hwo ofterndo you swithc between the two. I use FreeBSD for
everyhting on disk1 and Windows ME for games on disk 0. I dislike
boot managers and since I change Windows a lot. So I just tell bios to
boot FreeBSD (where I installed a standard MBR).

ie. I go tothe bios upponboot time and and tell to boot either from Disk0
(windows ME) or disk1 (Freebsd). I did not install any boot managers just
standard MBR.

If this helps.

redjupiter

drive 0 : fat   (c:) 512 mb
         : ufs   Freebsd 4.7
drive 1 : ntfs  (d: Windows XP)

so far, its that only way that works for me.
im using the freebsd loader.

I guess my only solution is to boot on second hard drive and use FreeBSD
loader to load Windows XP or FreeBSD. Then does someone have a quick
start about doing that?

-How to install the FreeBSD boot manager (/stand/sysinstall?)
-How to configure it

Thanks!

Christian

Quote:

> Is there a way to use XP boot manager (boot.ini) to let me boot FreeBSD
> on the second hard drive?

I assume that your first drive is ad0 and your second, ad2.

- Install the BSD Bootloader on the MBR of ad2, as you pretend that this
drive were the first and wanted to boot FreeBSD only.
- Do a dd if=/dev/ad2c of=/tmp/freebsd.mbr bs=512 count=1 to get the
master boot record of ad2 in a file named freebsd.mbr and copy it to the
XP boot partition.
- Edit the NTLDR's boot.ini as follows:
C:\freebsd.mbr="FreeBSD"

That should do the trick. Hope it helps!

Cheers,
David.

first disk : XP, Linux
second disk: FreeBSD

Works like a charm.

Ted

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Edward O'Connor