Re: Boot0 configuration question...

From: Giorgos Keramidas (keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr)
Date: 06/26/04

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    Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 03:35:47 +0300
To: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no>

    On 2004-06-26 00:59, Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> wrote:

    > Now, what I did not expect is that if I set the FreeBSD drive as drive
    > 0 in the BIOS, I am still unable to boot WinXP. The boot manager comes
    > up, I select Drive 1, it prompts me again and I select the '???' entry
    > (WinXP) - and the machine reboots. Selecting FreeBSD at the first
    > invocation of boot0 gets me into FreeBSD alright.

    > However, setting the WinXP drive as drive 0 in the BIOS things work
    > flawlessly. At the first invocation of boot0, WinXP boots up if I
    > select '???'. If I select Drive 1, and the second invocation of boot0
    > appears and I select 'FreeBSD' - it boots FreeBSD!!

    > Is this some weirdness of the BIOS? That the onboard IDE controllers
    > are somehow inherently preferred, and that weirdness occurs if drives
    > on any other controller are set to drive 0? It beats me, maybe one of
    > you guys know. Please let me know if you do, as this befuddles me.

    AFAIK it's not a weirdness of the BIOS but of the Windows XP loader,
    which expects that it will be fired up from the first (and only) active
    partition of the first disk.

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