Dual Booting FreeBSD

[Jud]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:46:27 -0500 (EST), Michael L. Squires  
<mikes at siralan.org> wrote:

>> 40 gigs.  Would it be easier to install FreeBSD on the unformatted  
>> partition
>> or the new hard drive for the purpose of dual booting with xp?  Also,  
>> does
>> anyone know how to set up a dual boot system or know of a good guide to  
>> doing
>> so?
>
> I have one system which uses XOSL with separate disks (SCSI) for FreeBSD
> 5.1-CURRENT and XP, and another using the standard FBSD boot manager
> where the primary disk is all XP and FreeBSD uses the first partition
> of the secondary drive.
>
> Both work fine.

Actually, your FreeBSD install can use both the new drive and the free  
space on the original drive, but if you'd rather have 40GB to use on  
something else, that's fine.

If you install FreeBSD (or at least the root partition) on the new drive  
and you use FreeBSD's bootloader, be sure to install the bootloader on  
*both* drives.

There are instructions regarding how to dual boot using the Windows  
bootloader in the FAQ at the FreeBSD web site.  I have always found the  
instructions for doing this with both OSs on one drive easier to  
understand than the instructions for two drives, but your experience may  
be different.

Other available free bootloaders include the abovementioned XOSL, Grub  
 from the FreeBSD ports system, and the one I'm using now (after having  
tried all the above except XOSL), GAG, which is very easy and automagic.

Jud