Booting Release 5.2 and XP

From: greg (gval_at_mts.net)
Date: 01/30/04

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    I want to be able to dual boot into FreeBSD and Windows XP. Right now
    FreeBSD is booting just fine.

    Windows XP is on a FAT32 filesystem on the first primary partition of
    the second hard drive. The second hard drive is the secondary master.

    I am booting my system with the standard boot loader that came with 5.2
    Release. It detects the windows partition on the second hard drive as
    DOS partition. When I hit F5 (it prompts me to hit F5 to boot the DOS
    partition), it sits there and does nothing.

    I have fomated the MBR on the second drive, so it is MSed.

    Previous to the FreeBSD install, I was dual booting Debian and the same
    Windows XP partition. I had to do some work configuring GRUB to get it
    to work. What worked was swapping HD0 and HD1 when I choose to boot XP.
    This would fool Windows XP into thinking it was booting off the first
    hard drive.

    Is there a way to change loader.conf to do this. I have looked at the
    loader.conf fig help, and did not see any thing that would obviously do
    this.

    Maybe there is another boot loader I could use that would allow me to
    fool Windows XP into thinking it is the first hard drive?

    I would use GRUB, but it does not support being installed on a UFS2
    filesystem yet.

    I dual boot only for the games. 

    -- 
greg <gval@mts.net>
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