Re: FreeBSD BOOT

From: Sidnei Rodrigo Basei (basei_at_matrix.com.br)
Date: 02/07/04

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    Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:09:19 -0200
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

    I had installed the WinXP in one disk slace... After, I intalled the
    FreeBSD witch the "Boot Manager" option.

    But....
    1) Ther Boot Manager recognize "F2 ??" for WinXP.
    2) When i press F2, the WinXP is loaded.
    3) when i made the login in WinXP, one License error occour.

    Then ...
    I made (in WinXP restore) fixmbr and fixboot commands. and I installed
    the OSL2000 boot manager, but the freeBSD dont boot !!!

    I need boot in freebsd and install the BSD boot in your slice and
    install one boot loader (i think Grub) in the MBR sector...

    Understand my problem ?
    :-(

    Sorry, my englis is bad... :-D

    Dan Strick wrote:

    >>Hi... i have the FreeBSD and Windows XP in my computer.... my the
    >>windows had removed my FreeBSD boot ...
    >>Anyone know how to boot in freebsd and restore the boot sector? No MBR!!!
    >>
    >>
    >
    >I assume you mean that you first installed FreeBSD in one disk slice
    >(i.e. MBR partition) and then installed WinXP in another slice and after
    >installing WinXP you discovered that your system always boots WinXP and
    >doesn't offer you the option of booting FreeBSD instead. This is because
    >the WinXP installation replaced the FreeBSD bootstrap program in the MBR
    >sector of the disk drive.
    >
    >There is a messy way of configuring XP to give you the option of booting
    >FreeBSD but it is easier to just reinstall the standard FreeBSD master
    >bootstrap program. If you have (or can make) the live file system CD
    >for a recent release of FreeBSD (from the file ...-i386-disc2.iso), boot
    >the installation floppy or CD for that release, go into fixit mode using
    >the live file system CD, and issue the command
    >
    > boot0cfg -B ad0
    >
    >where "ad0" is the disk on which you installed both FreeBSD and WinXP.
    >
    >If you don't have the live file system CD, instead of going into fixit
    >mode you can select the "custom installation" menu option and then select
    >the menu option for allocating disk space for FreeBSD (i.e. the option
    >for editing MBR partition tables). Select the disk drive on which you
    >previously installed FreeBSD and WinXP. Verify that the MBR partition
    >table that it fetches from the disk drive is correct and issue the
    >undocumented "W" command. Then exit the installation procedure without
    >doing an installation and reboot.
    >
    >Dan Strick
    >strick@covad.net
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