Dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD - odd problem

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Mike Maltese wrote:

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>> Hi Mike,
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>> Do you have WinXP and FreeBSD on the same disc or on two separate discs?
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>> Thanatos
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>>
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> Same physical disk. Windoze is on ad0s1 and FBSD is on ad0s2. At the 
> moment I'm looking into restoring XP's MBR and then utilizing it's 
> boot manager by copying the FreeBSD boot blocks. I know this can be 
> done with Linux, we'll see about FreeBSD. =) I can't believe this 
> isn't working, I've had great success in the past with dual-booting. 
> The mainboard is a Shuttle AK12 and I just flashed the BIOS to the 
> latest version. It's not the newest board, so I'm wondering if I'm 
> running into the 1024 cylinder limit thing.
>
> Help me out here guys, I'm trying to make a convert out of my friend!
>
> Thanks, Mike
>
>
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Howdy,

Shot in the dark ( well, kinda ). Did you set the FreeBSD partition to 
be bootable when you created it ( the S option in the FDISKPartition 
Editor )?

What does your partition scheme look like? ( More specific that ad0s1 & 
ad0s1 )

( hmm, maybe I'll put some more useless parens in here () () () )

Thanatos

Thanatos