Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Daniel:

I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years old. 
It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard disks. The 
only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's why I need the 
boot manager solution.

Thank you.

Daniel A. wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Benjamin Sher <delphi123 at zebra.net> wrote:
>   
>> Dear friends:
>>
>> I decided to go out and buy the latest issue of Linux Format with the
>> FreeBSD 6 CD. I am very glad I did. FreeBSD is tough to install, but
>> after spending several hours I finally succeeded in doing a perfect
>> installation. ONE BIG PROBLEM: When I removed the CD and rebooted, I got
>> into my Windows XP (I have two separate disks, one for Windows, one of
>> FreeBSD). There was no way to get into FreeBSD. Naturally, I went into
>> my BIOS and changed the boot sequence from CD to Hard Drive. That only
>> caused my system to boot into Windows XP.
>>
>> I read the instructions about the FreeBSD Boot Manager. It said clearly
>> that it should allow switching from one OS to another. But I did not see
>> any configuration for that. How, may I ask, do I do this while
>> installing FreeBSD? How do I change this configuration to guarantee that
>> all my work won't go down the toilet and that when I reboot, I will see
>> Lilo or whatever as a boot manager that will allow me to select either
>> FreeBSD or Windows?
>>
>> I am looking forward to solving this and then to actually seeing FreeBSD
>> for the first time.
>>
>> Thank you so much in advance.
>>
>> Benjamin
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> In your BIOS, make changes so that the system boots from HDD1 instead of HDD0
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