dual-booting with xp

[Didier Wiroth]

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 <itetcu at apropo.ro>
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 <duanewinner at att.net> 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
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