FeeBSD MultiBoot

slackwbas · 08-23-2005, 10:22 AM

i have installed windows xp .then i installed FreeBsd 5.4 and i installed the FreeBSD bootloader on the MBR.now i cant acces the winxp.i tried to "fdisk /mbr" but it didnt change anything.how can i edit the FreeBSD bootLoader to access the Windows xp .like LILO or grub..is that possible?
i realy want to install winXP+FreeBSD+Slackware but i dont know which one should i install 1st.and how can i configure the bootloader.?

thanx

reddazz · 08-23-2005, 11:28 AM

I would install windows first, then slack and finally freebsd. FreeBSD can only be installed on a primary partition, so make sure you have a primary partition for Windows and FreeBSD and either a primary partition for Slack or use an extended partition with a few logical partitions in it for Slack. If you use grub, the entry for FreeBSD will be something like this

Code:

title FreeBSD
        root (hd1,2,a)
        kernel /boot/loader

hd1 means its on /dev/hdb. The "2" means that its on the third primary partition on /dev/hdb and the "a" means the root partition is located on the first slice of the third partition on /dev/hdb. If this is all jargon to you, then take a look at the manual on the freebsd website.

Duo · 09-07-2005, 11:22 AM

If you want to use the FreeBSD, entering "fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/hda". When I installed 5.3 I had the same problem, but it turns out that the bootloader in /boot/mbr is a simplified one, guess it doesn't allow multibooting. But doing this worked for me.

teckk · 09-09-2005, 07:14 PM

Here's the handbook page on that.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ot-blocks.html