dual boot winxp & 9.1-rc3

[Ilya Kazakevich]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> On an old 20gb hard drive I first installed winxp on the first half of the
> HD. winxp booted fine. Then I installed 9.1-rc3 on the second half of the
> HD. Now when I boot the HD I only get 9.1-rc3. Winxp created mbr and
> installed winxp into first dos partition. 9.1-rc3 uses bsdinstall which
> uses gpart to create the slice as gpart show displays as see below...
>
> =>      63  39862305  ada0  MBR  (19G)
>         63  19928097     1  ntfs  (9.5G)
>   19928160  19933137     2  freebsd  [active]  (9.5G)
>   39861297      1071        - free -  (535k)
>
> =>       0  19933137  ada0s2  BSD  (9.5G)
>          0  18933760       1  freebsd-ufs  (9.0G)
>   18933760    995328       2  freebsd-swap  (486M)
>   19929088      4049          - free -  (2M)
>
> Now I want to add BSD dual boot to the MBR.
> Is this all I need?
>
>  fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ada
>
>
Yes, you should install "bootmanager" (boot0) to the MBR of your HDD.
You probably better use boot0cfg (man boot0cfg )

BTW you could also use windows boot manager (fetch MBS and configure
boot.ini to work with it) but boot0 is, probably, better.

Ilya.