Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

[Jud]

Gayn Winters wrote:
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Benjamin Sher
>> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:21 PM
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!
>>
>>
>> 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
>>     
Always more than one way to skin a cat.  :-)

A rather easy way to do what you want without having to touch your 
Windows installation is to use the free GAG bootloader - <URL: 
http://gag.sourceforge.net/>.  The installation instructions seem pretty 
self-explanatory to me, but if you have any questions, feel free to 
ask.  It's what I've used for years to boot triple or quadruple OS 
systems, and I've never had a problem.

Jud