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[smartmlp]

I need some help.
I have Windows XP on the Main HD, it is a NTFS partition.
and, I got a nother harddrive, and put freeBSD on it. I have a problem.
How do I boot to it?
FreeBSD is on another phisical HD
and now, another prob.
I tried formatting the second HD with freeBSD on it, and it wont, I get a bad request....

[Panzerfaust]

Install BSD on the first HD and install WinXP on the second one.
I don't think XP will have any problems finding the second drive. If that doesn't work, then setup LILO (I think freebsd comes with it). And configure it to load the operating systems from different drives. Configuring won't be a problem. Google got tons of tutorials on how to do it. Just make sure freebsd detects the second drive that XP is installed on.

[Panzerfaust]

Here's a tutorial on how to mount another HD. I just found it few posts below. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel...re/hd_add.html

[smartmlp]

Thanks,
But I want Windows XP as the main
I need some type of boot prog
I can not use Bootmagic becuase it needs a Fat32 main HD

[smartmlp]

I can also get some instructions on to make a boot disk? anything to get into my FreeBSD!

[smartmlp]

Anyone? please help me!

[Ahmad]

While installing FreeBSD, did it give you the option of where to install the boot loader?

[smartmlp]

What prog should I use to formatt it?
Partition magic does not work now with the FreeBSD partition on it :-/

[JDF]

I don't know if FreeBSD is the same as Redhat/Mandrake but you should be able to make a bootdisk in XP using rawrite.exe ( use the boot.bin image file ). Both of these files should be on the FreeBSD disk. From there, instead of installing look for some kind of "rescue" option. Just do what the screen tells you to, you should be able to make a bootdisk ( the kind that actually loads FreeBSD ) or install a bootloader. If all else fails, the boot disk will allow you to reformat the drive and start over. Be careful though if you reinstall! I tried installing FreeBSD and it wrote over my bootsector and I could not get into XP.. had to reformat, was a major pain. I'm not sure if this is relevant considering you're using 2 hard drives and not just separate partitions like I was, not sure how all that works, but consider yourself warned.

HTH