Dual booting w/ two disks

[gabriel]

hmm.. I guess I can just change the jumper settings on the disks to
swap 'em out? *sigh*

What do you suggest?


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:51:33 -0800, Brian M. Kincaid <bmk0 at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Yup, Windows needs to be the first disk.
> 
> 
> gabriel wrote:
> > In my case, freebsd is on the master and windows is on the slave, you
> > mean that it should be the other way around?
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:45:44 -0800, Brian M. Kincaid <bmk0 at pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> >>I have been running a dual boot system with Windows and FreeBSD on
> >>separate disks for several years. I use just the basic FreeBSD MBR boot
> >>program, installed using the procedure described in the Handbook.
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
> >>
> >>Windows XP needs to be on the first disk (Disk 0) and you can put
> >>FreeBSD on the other disk. Windows installation will clobber the FreeBSD
> >>boot block, so you need to write over it with the Handbook procedure.
> >>
> >>Brian
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 


-- 
gabriel,

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