FreeBSD-multi-boot

Danny Butroyd danny at g-mapps.com
Mon May 15 15:41:14 UTC 2006


Vlad GURDIGA wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have these slices on my HDD:
> - /dev/ad0s1 - Windows XP
> - /dev/ad0s2 - FreeBSD/i386
> - /dev/ad0s3 - FreeBSD/amd64
>
> and I want them all in my boot.ini.
>
> Till now I succeeded with FreeBSD/i386 (first did "dd if=/dev/ad0s2
> of=boot.bsd bs=512 count=1" from FreeBSD/i386, then copied the
> resulted "boot.bsd" file to Windows C:\)
>
> I did the same trick with FreeBSD/amd64 (first did "dd if=/dev/ad0s3
> of=boot64.bsd bs=512 count=1" from FreeBSD/amd64, then copied the
> resulted "boot64.bsd" file to Windows C:\) so, my boot.ini looks like
> this:
>
> -------cut here------
> [boot loader]
> timeout=3
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
> Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
> C:\boot.bsd="UNIX FreeBSD/i386"
> C:\boot64.bsd="UNIX FreeBSD/amd64"
> -------cut here------
>
>
> Now, the problem is that when I choose "UNIX FreeBSD/amd64" from the
> boot menu, it boots "UNIX FreeBSD/i386"!!!
>
> What did I missed?
this page may help:-

http://www.ubergeek.co.uk/howtos/grub-freebsd-windowsxp.html

Cheers
Danny


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