Re: Adding a XP disk to FreeBSD machine

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:01:16PM +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote:

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:23:00 -0700
Garrett Cooper <youshi10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rico Secada wrote:
[...]
I have another HD which used to be in the same box running XP. I set
this drive to slave and installed it into the box in order to
dualboot.
[...]

1. All windows disks must be primary if you're going to boot off of
them -- sorry, it's a stupid requirement that M$ setup a long time

What do you mean? I think he asked about slave (primary I suppose). I
ask this because ...

3. You'll have to setup the boot manager on the windows disk.

... "windows" can normally boot from slave position without bootloader,
(in some cases with help of 'boot.ini' and ntldr/ntdetect.com, but
AFAIK only if booting is impossible even when ad1 (D) is selected in
BIOS as the first boot choice).

HE is trying to dual boot the machine. He needs something on that
second disk that the MBR on the first disk can transfer control to.
That something is the MBR on the second disk. That's the way it
works.

////jerry


Ok, it's maybe simpler to add FreeBSD's boot sector, but that's not
necassary.

So, Rico should first check if "windows" can boot directly from D. If
not, that's another problem.

Nikola Le??i??

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