Dual Boot with Windows XP

[Brian Bobowski]

Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:

> My first IDE drive is (on IDE 0 - master) .... with windows XP 
> controlling it MBR.
>
> My second IDE drive  (on IDE 0 - slave) .... is with FreeBSD 5.3 
> controlling it MBR.
>
> How can I do to configure the boot loader and the scripts: loader.rc 
> and loader.conf to create
> a dual boot environment using FreeBSD boot loader ?
>
> I have to install the file boo0 on windows XP MBR drive ?
>
> And about the configurations to put them all in the same menu ?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Giuliano

The FreeBSD boot loader needs to be installed to whichever drive your 
BIOS thinks is first(likely your primary master), which according to 
what you cite above should indeed be the Windows XP drive. The boot 
loader, if installed through /stand/sysinstall at least, should 
automatically be configured to recognise both, but be advised that on my 
XP install(which is partitions on the same drive), the XP shows up as 
"???". Configuring other boot loaders such as grub is something I've 
never done myself, so can't really advise on.

HTH,

-BB