Re: dual boot WXP + FreeBSD
Colin Perkins <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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--> "Jesse D. Guardiani" writes: >Howdy list, > >I've had a terrible day. It was exclusively spent getting slapped around by >WXP and FreeBSD. To my great surprise, FreeBSD has offered the most solid >resistance. > >The Challenge! >----------------- >I'm trying to set up a WXP + FreeBSD dual boot using the WXP boot loader on >my new (to me) IBM Thinkpad A30p. > >I know exactly what must be done and in what order. However, the specifics >of one little step are escaping me. This is the page I'm using for reference >(and the pages it refers to): > >http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=70352+0+archive/2003/freebsd-mobile/2003041 >3.freebsd-mobile > > >How far have I gotten? >-------------------------- >I have successfully resized my WXP slice with BootIt NG and >created/installed FreeBSD on a second (or third, if you count the IBM >recovery slice) slice. WXP is booting fine and I have NOT modified the boot >sectors in any way. This was no small feat considering I didn't have the >recovery console installed before I resized the WXP slice and I didn't have >the IBM Recovery CD... but that's a story for another day. > > >So what's the problem? >--------------------------- >How the heck do I access /boot/boot1 on my FreeBSD slice once I reboot after >installtion?!? I need to copy /boot/boot1 to a floppy so that I can >reference it from the WXP boot loader config file. But WXP is on the >bootable slice, and setting the FreeBSD slice as bootable gives a "OS not >found" error from the BIOS. Have you tried using bootpart (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) from within WinXP, and telling it to add the FreeBSD partition? Colin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"