Re: Adding a XP disk to FreeBSD machine
- From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:45:47 +0200
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:22:05 -0700
Garrett Cooper <youshi10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Garrett Cooper <youshi10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1. All windows disks must be primary if you're going to boot offNikola Lecic wrote:
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 ...
Garrett Cooper wrote:
Now that I think about it I don't think that there's anything wrong
as long as the boot order doesn't change. This is simple to modify
with SATA/SCSI, but PATA is statically set based on the jumper pins.
Once you change the boot order, things change in the OS in terms of
how the registry mapped entries, programs found their way around,
etc, and it breaks everything.
Ok, clear, that's why I asked.
Nikola Lecic wrote:^^^^^^^
... "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).
Garrett Cooper wrote:
Yes. Drive lettering gets tricky though, based on what partitions
were active when stuff was installed, etc, because Nikola's first
Rico's
(you're answering my question, disk is Rico's :))
NTFS/FAT formatted partition could have been C:, not D:, etc. *sighs
and shakes head at bad partitioner in 2k/xp/2k3 installer*.
Nikola Lecic wrote:
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
Garrett Cooper wrote:
The reasoning used in this document is the basis for my previous
statement:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/112019
So as long as the boot ordering or disk ordering of the primary
(Windows) disk doesn't change, things should be groovy.
I assumed that Rico just added primary slave as such, without changing.
Once upon a time I experienced that xp even then refused to boot (in
similar situation) without ntdetect.com.
Nikola Lečić
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