Re: Adding a XP disk to FreeBSD machine
- From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:58:43 +0200
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:11:28 -0400
Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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:
[...]1. All windows disks must be primary if you're going to boot off
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.
[...]
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.
Yes :)
I said that it's _possible_ to keep the second disk stay untouched (as
it remained after xp installation). I replied because (1)+(3) of
Garrett's e-mail implied (maybe, that's why I asked him a question)
that xp cannot start from the second disk without _separate_ bootloader
installed _there_ from the outside, which is not true.
My statement doesn't say anything about contents of the first disk and
doesn't negate any of the options you proposed.
I did add two things:
(a) a proposition to check ad1 separately -- doesn't hurt;
(b) a possible help if xp cannot orientate itself.
Nikola Lečić
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