.
>
> Now, I'd like to configure the FreeBSD boot manager to dual boot. In the
> menu, I can choose FreeBSD or Disk 1, but choosing the latter does not
> boot XP. How do I postconfigure the boot manager?
Windows, including XP, wants to boot off the C-drive (the first boot
devic
Hi,
I have a PC with two hard drives, one (master) dedicated FreeBSD the
other (slave) dedicated XP. The XP was preinstalled, and to avoid any
confusion, I disconnected the disk while installing FreeBSD.
Now, I'd like to configure the FreeBSD boot manager to dual boot. In the
menu,
Oops, this is the very link that I was looking for. Thanks a lot!
Soo-Hyun
On 8/24/05, Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/22/05, Jerahmy Pocott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On 22/08/2005, at 11:22 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > >
> > >
On 8/22/05, Jerahmy Pocott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 22/08/2005, at 11:22 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >
> > Yes, XP does have a boot manager, and I suppose I should have
> > listed some available options when I originally replied to the
> >
On 22/08/2005, at 11:22 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Yes, XP does have a boot manager, and I suppose I should have
listed some available options when I originally replied to the
email. Just thought that someone was making a split decision during
an install and needed quick help
gt;> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my system which has two separate HDD
> >> (each has 40GB). I am already using the first drive (e.g., C drive)
> >> only for Window XP and now would like to install FreeBSD on the
> >
ke to install FreeBSD on the
second
drive (e.g., D drive).
Which drive should I install the FreeBSD Boot Manager?
That really depends on how you want to do it..
If you want the use boot manager that comes with FreeBSD you will
need to
install it on the primary disk (C drive)..
I don't r
Which drive should I install the FreeBSD Boot Manager?
That really depends on how you want to do it..
If you want the use boot manager that comes with FreeBSD you will
need to
install it on the primary disk (C drive)..
I don't really know much about XP, but isn't it based on NT?
Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
>>
>>Which drive should I install the FreeBSD Boot Manager?
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
> Your primary 1st channel IDE drive-the one you have devoted for Windows
> use-unless you plan on usin
l the FreeBSD Boot Manager?
Thank you.
Your primary 1st channel IDE drive-the one you have devoted for
Windows use-unless you plan on using a bootdisk to startup FreeBSD :).
-Garrett
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Hi,
I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my system which has two separate HDD
(each has 40GB). I am already using the first drive (e.g., C drive)
only for Window XP and now would like to install FreeBSD on the second
drive (e.g., D drive).
Which drive should I install the FreeBSD Boot Ma
Michael Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. Is there any equivalent to nextboot(8) for the boot manager such that a
> boot selection can be made prior to the boot
> sequence so that the choice can be made remotely instead of only at the
> console?
Read about "boot
Hello all,
I am practicing x86 5.4-REL disaster recovery and perhaps someone
intimate with the boot manager (perhaps "boot2") could kindly explain
a few things.
Yes, I have attempted to answer these by reading:
/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/*
(BTW, why does only the "recen
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:02:56 +0300, "Igor Demjanenko"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >Hi! How could I have Windows boot record only, after I
> >have installed FreBSD's boot manager. I don`t want to
> >deinstall FreeBSD, just to remove FreeBSD boot manager
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Boot manager
Hi! How could
ow could I have Windows boot record only, after I
have installed FreBSD's boot manager. I don`t want to
deinstall FreeBSD, just to remove FreeBSD boot manager
and to let the MBR exaclty as it was before installing
FreeBSD. Thank
Hi! How could I have Windows boot record only, after I
have installed FreBSD's boot manager. I don`t want to
deinstall FreeBSD, just to remove FreeBSD boot manager
and to let the MBR exaclty as it was before installing
FreeBSD. Thank you in ad
On July 18, 2005 07:26 pm, Jerry Tarwid wrote:
> I have installed FreeBSD on a box with Windows XP & I installed the FreeBSD
> Boot manager. My question is how do I get rid of the boot manager??? I want
> to uninstall FreeBSD & uninstall the boot manager so my computer will just
I have installed FreeBSD on a box with Windows XP & I installed the FreeBSD
Boot manager. My question is how do I get rid of the boot manager??? I want to
uninstall FreeBSD & uninstall the boot manager so my computer will just boot
windows. I have 2 SATA hard drives, drive 1 has
I have a duel boot system setup with the Freebsd Boot Manager in the MBR.
Is there anyway to change the default boot selection from with in the
FreeBSD environment?
What I mean is, if I am remotely accessing my dual boot FreeBSD box,
and I want it to boot into the other OS, is there a command that
hren
> >>>
> >>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>On 2005-04-03, Teilhard Knight scribbled these
> >>>>What's wrong with FreeBSD's boot manager?
> >>>>
> >>>&
wrong with FreeBSD's boot manager?
It writes ?? instead of windows
Nobody knows how it works for example how to install it witout sysinstall
:P
try grub.
Regards,
Frank
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:47:22PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 20:36 schrieb Gert Cuykens:
> > On Apr 3, 2005 7:33 PM, Christopher Nehren
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 2005-04-03, Teilhard Knight scribbled these
&g
Teilhard Knight wrote:
Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several
OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together
with a Drive Overlay.
I used to use System Commander, but have found the last few releases
to be very unreliable, so I
t; curious markings:
> > > It doesnt have colors
> >
> > So? It's a boot manager, not a piece of artwork.
> >
> > > It doesnt look pretty
> >
> > Ditto.
> >
> > > It writes ?? instead of windows
> >
> > It prints ?? bec
On Apr 3, 2005 9:07 PM, Christopher Nehren
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> On 2005-04-03, Gert Cuykens scribbled these
> curious markings:
> > It doesnt have colors
>
> So? It's a boot manager, not a piece of
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On 2005-04-03, Gert Cuykens scribbled these
curious markings:
> It doesnt have colors
So? It's a boot manager, not a piece of artwork.
> It doesnt look pretty
Ditto.
> It writes ?? instead of windows
It prints ?? because it can'
curious markings:
> > > Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot
> > > several OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work
> > > together with a Drive Overlay.
> >
> > What's wrong with FreeBSD's b
On Apr 3, 2005 7:33 PM, Christopher Nehren
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> On 2005-04-03, Teilhard Knight scribbled these
> curious markings:
> > Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several
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> Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several
> OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together
> with a Drive Ov
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From: "Emanuel Strobl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Cc: "Teilhard Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: Boot manager
Thank you. I have had a look at it, and I would prefer a boot manager which
Am Sonntag, 3. April 2005 19:07 schrieb Teilhard Knight:
> Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several
> OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together
> with a Drive Overlay.
Yes, I can strongly recommend gag. Very powerfull, y
Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several
OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together
with a Drive Overlay.
Teilhard.
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Pete Dela Cruz wrote:
I have two hard drives in my computer and I installed FreeBsd on my
second hard drive (slave). Boot manager was also installed on my
primary hard drive (c:\). Now I decided to remove FreeBsd from this
computer and transfer it to another computer. Problem: The computer
is
I have two hard drives in my computer and I installed FreeBsd on my second hard
drive (slave). Boot manager was also installed on my primary hard drive (c:\).
Now I decided to remove FreeBsd from this computer and transfer it to another
computer. Problem: The computer is still prompting me at
14 Lut 2005 (Poniedziałek) o 23:53 (+0100) Marcin Simonides napisał(a):
> In the few recent months I've been having problems with the standard
> FreeBSD bootmanager: instead of booting some systems it would just beep
> and do nothing.
[...]
Ok, in my case setting the "packet" option for the bootm
me thing. I
removed the first small partition and created only two - now FreeBSD
started (after installation) from the first partition. I think that's
odd...
Then I installed Solaris and got its own boot manager. Works nice, but I
need to install Windows 2000 on a second disk and would like Fr
I dont know how to fix this (or what I did wrong)...
When my machine boots...this is what I see:
FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:
..and it will hang there...until I hit RETURN.
How can I fix this machine so that it *just* boots when rebooted?
Help!
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J.D. Bronson
Aurora Heal
Hello guys!
I have 2 partitions on my hard drive (ad0) one with Windows XP, the other one with
FreeBSD 5.0. Like usual I had problems with windows and I had to format the first
partition and reinstall windows. But as you know the instalation deleted the FreeBSD
boot manager. I rebooted with a
Hello guys!
I have 2 partitions on my hard drive (ad0) one with Windows XP, the other one with
FreeBSD 5.0. Like usual I had problems with windows and I had to format the first
partition and reinstall windows. But as you know the instalation deleted the FreeBSD
boot manager. I rebooted with a
I have 2 partitions on my hard drive ( ad0 ), one with Windows XP, one with FreeBSD
5.0.
Like usually I had problems with windows and I had to format the first partition
(ad0s1) and reinstall it, but as you know it deleted the FreeBSD boot manager.
I booted with a CD and tryed "fdisk /b
t and install boot manager on first hard disk. It
doesn't work.
When I reboot, I still enter in windows. What can I do?
As long as you have winXP installed why not use the ntloader.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER
answers all of the relevant questio
I'm trying to install freebsd 4.10 on second hard-drive. On the first hard
drive is winXP. When I run sysinstall from a cd-rom, it seems to be unable
to modify the mdr of my first hard drive. I tried to go into fdisk, the just
quit and install boot manager on first hard disk. It doesn&#
> Hello, I am new to this list, so hopefully I an
> writing to the right address.
Yes, you are, so welcome aboard!
> Anyway, I just installed FreeBSD in conjunction with
> WindowsME, and when it asked for a boot manager to be
> installed, I selected "None", since it said
management services. The proposed
operating systems are Windows 95, FreeBSD, and Windows 2000 Server. A
fourth operating system may be added at a later date. Have you had any
experience with any of the following boot manager programs that may suggest
their relative applicability to this project? The
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> My preference goes to "Smart Boot Manager" http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
[snip]
> No need for any partition, just install the full app into MBR. If something goes
> wrong, boot from floppy and re-install.
It doesn't fit into the MBR; the MBR
My preference goes to "Smart Boot Manager" http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
Free and lots of options. Let's say you have 2 windows installations on two
different hard drives (I know that's too much). You may run into troubles (like
starting booting from the second one and getti
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:09:04 +, Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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not know. Any information about positive or negative experiences with
any
of these programs in a multiple operating system configuration would be
appreciated.
This isn't on your list, but I t
ting systems are Windows 95, FreeBSD, and Windows 2000 Server. A
> fourth operating system may be added at a later date. Have you had any
> experience with any of the following boot manager programs that may
suggest
> their relative applicability to this project? The boot manager progra
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not know. Any information about positive or negative experiences with any
of these programs in a multiple operating system configuration would be
appreciated.
This isn't on your list, but I tried using the romantically named "gag"
graphical bootloader
http://gag.sou
Dear FreeBSD enthusiast,
In the list included on the original message, I forgot to mention the
shareware version of OS-BS boot manager program.
Thanks for your assistance. Yours truly, Lee Shackelford
- Forwarded by Lee Shackelford/HQ/Caltrans/CAGov on 01/14/2004 08:42 AM
, and Windows 2000 Server. A
fourth operating system may be added at a later date. Have you had any
experience with any of the following boot manager programs that may suggest
their relative applicability to this project? The boot manager programs I
am considering include the following: LILO
I use Smart Boot Manager to boot my Windows and FreeBSD. If fits on the
MBR of the first disk and allow ID swap as well as hidding.
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
Dan Dan wrote:
I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x
install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot
manager from the
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:35 am, Dan Dan wrote:
> I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x
> install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot
> manager from the CD. However, looking at the FAQ
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DA
Actually had the same problem myself last week.
The write option _is_ there but it isn't showing.
Simply pressing 'w' will ask if you want to write. :-)
Best luck, Björn.
> I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x
> install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot
I needed to reinstall Windows after a FreeBSD 5.x
install. I knew that I could reinstall the boot
manager from the CD. However, looking at the FAQ
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DAMAGED-BOOT-MANAGER
to answer my question, the answers don't work f
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:49:21 -0800, Craig Caughlin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
I have 2 hard disks, each on their own channel. I have XOSL installed as
my
boot manager, in Drive 1, Partition 1. I have Windows 2000-Pro on Drive
1,
Partition 2. I want to install FreeBSD 5.0 on
Hi folks,
I have 2 hard disks, each on their own channel. I have XOSL installed as my
boot manager, in Drive 1, Partition 1. I have Windows 2000-Pro on Drive 1,
Partition 2. I want to install FreeBSD 5.0 on Drive 2, but use XOSL to load
it.
Should I install FreeBSD using the "Standard
e Boot manager for installation, it still doesn't seem to install
itself. I still see the Lilo menu at
boot time.
When selecting the boot manager option during installation, I am asked
on which disk the
operation should be performed on, and it selects ad1 (the second disk)
by default. Using
I have two disks on my machine - the first has WinNT while the second had linux. I
used Lilo
to select which OS I wanted to boot.
Replacing linux, I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on the second disk. In spite of
selecting
the Boot manager for installation, it still doesn't seem to in
A133
> ad2: 58644MB [119150/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100
>
> The other 2 disks contain OpenBSD-current (ad1) and Win XP Home (ad2).
> During the FreeBSD installation I've answered "Yes" to the question
> if I'd like it to install a boot manager and now during
).
During the FreeBSD installation I've answered "Yes" to the question
if I'd like it to install a boot manager and now during the boot I
see 2 entries - F1 for FreeBSD and F5 for OpenBSD (both boot fine).
How could I enable the 3rd entry in order to boot the WinXP from
the ad
On 05 Jul 2003 15:53:02 +0800, Edy Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would like to revert to regular boot instead of using the Boot
Manager.
Any idea ?
What do you mean by "regular boot"?
Jud
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Edy Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to revert to regular boot instead of using the Boot
> Manager.
>
> Any idea ?
It's in the FAQ.
To return a ``dangerously dedicated'' disk for normal PC use, there are
basically two options. Th
I would like to revert to regular boot instead of using the Boot
Manager.
Any idea ?
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:50:58PM -0500, John H Hofstetter wrote:
> The reason I'm asking where the FreeBSD boot manager is because I need to
> get rid of it, make it go away. This is not because I'm displeased with
> FreeBSD as an operating system but due to the fact that I&#
The reason I'm asking where the FreeBSD boot manager is because I need to
get rid of it, make it go away. This is not because I'm displeased with
FreeBSD as an operating system but due to the fact that I'm limited to a
56k dial up and too broke to spend any money at this t
d in a thread that I missed (see Dual
> Booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP) - the boot manager didn't seem to
> install on the boot drive when I installed FreeBSD on my second disk -
> are there any special options to make sure this happens? I'll give it
> another go t
Brian Jackson wrote:
Hi -
I have a question regarding installation - the handbook alluded to the
answer, but I'd like opinions from people who may have done this
before :)
It seems like this was addressed in a thread that I missed (see Dual
Booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP) - the
slave) : FreeBSD 4.7
I'd like to be able to boot to either drive - but I'm not sure how to
configure the Boot Manager to accomplish this. I assume that I need to
use Partition Magic or something similar to make space on drive 0 for
the boot manager? Can I just go into sysinstall an
Thus spake Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I currently have the booteasy boot manager on my FreeBSD system, so it
> prompts me with a menu on startup (F1 FreeBSD) and waits 5 seconds before
> defaulting to F1. But I only have FreeBSD my box. Is there any way to
> go b
I currently have the booteasy boot manager on my FreeBSD system, so it
prompts me with a menu on startup (F1 FreeBSD) and waits 5 seconds before
defaulting to F1. But I only have FreeBSD my box. Is there any way to
go back to the simpler, standard boot code that loads FreeBSD directly?
I have
> Nothing will boot on F5, its just an extra drive I use for my /usr mount.
> Question is... is it possible to change that "Drive 1" label to something
> else? If so, I would like to know how to do it. Thanks...
I recommend replacing the default boot manager with the one that c
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 20:03, John Von Essen wrote:
>
> Im curious about something. On my machine, the freebsd boot manager
> displays something like:
>
> F1 FreeBSD
> F2 DOS
> F5 Drive 1
>
> Nothing will boot on F5, its just an extra drive I use for my /usr mou
John Von Essen wrote:
Im curious about something. On my machine, the freebsd boot manager
displays something like:
F1 FreeBSD
F2 DOS
F5 Drive 1
Nothing will boot on F5, its just an extra drive I use for my /usr
mount. Question is... is it possible to change that "Drive 1" label to
Im curious about something. On my machine, the freebsd boot manager
displays something like:
F1 FreeBSD
F2 DOS
F5 Drive 1
Nothing will boot on F5, its just an extra drive I use for my /usr mount.
Question is... is it possible to change that "Drive 1" label to something
else? If s
Hi,
I have installed a FreeBSD on box with a 70 gb raid array. It works perfectly,
I get no errors when I run the install and the when the installtion is finished
I reboot the system.
I get to the boot manager after the bios of my computer and scsi cards have probed my
computer,
And get a
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