dualboot winxp & freebsd

Mikko Heiskanen mikko at whitecortex.net
Fri Jul 29 19:40:48 GMT 2005


Hi,

it seems it's so common knowledge to achieve this,
that there isn't any info anywhere about it.
So, I have a winxp hard disk at the end of a sata pci-card,
and freebsd harddisk straight in the motherboard ide connection.

So if both are connected, freebsd starts,
and if I take cabled off the freebsd harddisk, windows starts.
I cannot choose it from the bios that windows would make it first.

So that rules out the solution from handbook, where it's done vice 
versa.

Secondly, I wouldn't want any gag or grub or any other "external" 
programs;
I'm quite sure freebsd's own bootloader can do it without problems.

Question remains: how? I vaguely remember I had done it before.

Thank you for your time,
Mikko (using freebsd 5.4)

PS: I'm not subscribed at the moment, I would appreciate if you could
post a copy for me.



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