On Thursday 01 March 2007 13:21, Beech Rintoul said: > On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:36, Sam Jones said: > > I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA > > hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with > > Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first > > drive, and when the computer boots, it displays: > > > > F1 FreeBSD > > F5 Drive 1 > > > > When I press F5, FreeBSD loads and not Windows. I know Windows is > > working because when I disconnect the first drive, Windows boots > > from the second just fine. I've tried using boot0cfg to reload > > the boot manager, but that doesn't help. The simplest thing to do > > would be to specify that F5 boots Windows, but I can't find > > anything. > > > > Is this configuration even possible? Or does Windows just make it > > impossible to boot from the second disk? > > You need to switch your drives around and setup accordingly. > Windows (at least in my experience) will not boot from anything but > the first drive.
I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the handbook. Beech > > Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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