Thank you Damien, Lucas and Juergen :) btw. the off topic on multimedia is my bad, I wasn't subscribed to FreeBSD questions. While reading howtos I missed http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/disks.html#grub-loader I'll add title FreeBSD 9.0 root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader to my menu.lst and then install FreeBSD. Regards, Ralf