Dual booting w/ two disks

[Irvin Piraman]

You don't have to install GAG in place of grub. Just test the Windows
MBR if you haven't trashed it... yet.




On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:12:52 -0800, gabriel <normal1.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd rather get grub working, I don't think installing another boot
> loader is gonna solve anything. Plus I like grub :P
> 
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:21:07 -0800, Irvin Piraman <ippiraman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Get GAG (gag.sourceforge.net) and try booting to Windows...
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:27:45 -0800, gabriel <normal1.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to dual boot FreeBSD and Windows XP with two different
> > > disks, I have manged to get FreeBSD running and installed the boot
> > > manager and grub on it.
> > >
> > > When I boot into windows, I get some sort of boot loader error and it halts.
> > >
> > > Here's my menu.lst:
> > > color black/cyan yellow/cyan
> > > default 0
> > > fallback 1
> > >
> > > # For booting FreeBSD
> > >
> > > title FreeBSD - Unix
> > > root (hd0,a)
> > > kernel /boot/loader
> > >
> > > # For booting Windows NT or Windows95
> > >
> > > title Windows XP Menu
> > >
> > > map (hd0) (hd1)
> > > map (hd1) (hd0)
> > > rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> > > chainloader +1
> > > makeactive
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, at this point this is my last
> > > project involving my pcs for a while and I'd like to " get 'er done"
> > > :)
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > > --
> > > gabriel,
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> 
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> gabriel,
> 
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