dual-booting with xp

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

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.



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IOnut
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