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From: spooky130u on 13 Feb 2010 10:29
In article <4b76c0a3$1(a)news.broadpark.no>,
Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo(a)start.no> wrote:
>
>spooky130(a)NOSPAM.gmail.com wrote:
>> Oh, just in case I missed it: is there an absolutely safe way that I can
>> install the FreeBSD boot manager on the internal (drive c:/ - M$ XP)
>> drive to dual-boot without having to go into BIOS each time?
>
>Nothing is absolutely safe - that's why you need backups.

True.... :-)

>If you don't trust the (installation of) FreeBSD boot manager, you can
>always set up the Windows boot manager to boot FreeBSD:

It's more that I don't trust myself. I'm still not clear on exactly HOW
to install the FreeBSD boot manager. I THOUGHT I did that during the
install---but it ended up on the USB drive, not the internal drive, which
the system boots to.

I read one article that said that if you're booting off of the same drive
as Windows, copy /boot/boot1 to that drive, but if you're booting off of
another drive, copy /boot/boot0. Then, right below that, it says NOT to
copy boot0---says that would make the system unbootable, and that it has
to be installed by sysinstall (which it was...just not in the right
place).

>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER
>
>A bit more work, but after that it works.

Shortly after I posted my previous bit, I realized I forgot to ask about
one other possibility: booting from the boot disk from the distro, and
starting FreeBSD on the USB drive from there. I think I remember seeing
a post in this thread giving me the exact command to use, too...gotta go
back and re-read, now that I've had some coffee, habanero (and breakfast
to go with the habs), and benadryl to clear my sinuses so I can breathe.
It really helps me think more clearly if I can breathe. :-)

Thanks,
--jim

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From: spooky130u on 13 Feb 2010 11:51
In article <7tmumfFq3cU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Indi <indi(a)127.0.0.1> wrote:

>The actual error mesages would be good to have though...

I tried getting a photo of the screen, but don't have a tripod handy, and
got lots of blurry shots...but this should be (reasonably) accurate:

Root mount waiting for: usbus4
umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
ROOT MOUNT ERROR
If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the
following from the loader prompt:

set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw

and then remove invalid mount options from /etc/fstab:

Loader variables:
vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0s1a
vfs.root.mountfrom,options=rw

Manual root filesystem specification
<fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
eg, ufs:/dev/da0s1a
eg,cd9660:/dev/acd0
This is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /

List valid boot devices:
Abort manual input

mountroot>

>BTW, EasyBCD works for windows dual booting and is very easy to set
>up from within windows.

I missed that before...I'll try it. Thanks.

I tried "tunefs -L USBROOT da0s1a" and then, at mountroot> prompt,
"ufs:/dev/da0s1a" ... still can't find root.

Note that at the Fixit: prompt from the live CD or DVD, I can mount
/dev/da0s1a on /mnt and see that it is the root filesystem created during
the install.

On to the next attempt.... EasyBCD.

Later,
--jim

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From: spooky130u on 13 Feb 2010 12:15
In article <7tmumfFq3cU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Indi <indi(a)127.0.0.1> wrote:

>BTW, EasyBCD works for windows dual booting and is very easy to set
>up from within windows.

I just checked, and it seems to only work as a boot manager for dual-boot
between windows vista and [whatever], and they specifically state that
the boot manager in vista is different, and so on.

How would I boot directly from the distribution's DVD (e.g., from the
Fixit shell prompt)? I've forgotten (and I'm not sure I even CAN do
this)....

Later,
--jim

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From: Torfinn Ingolfsen on 13 Feb 2010 16:16
spooky130u(a)NOSPAM.gmail.com wrote:
> Shortly after I posted my previous bit, I realized I forgot to ask about
> one other possibility: booting from the boot disk from the distro, and
> starting FreeBSD on the USB drive from there.

Yes, this is possible. I wrote a quick tip about it here:
http://geekinfo.net/article.php?story=20070107031455259
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From: spooky130u on 13 Feb 2010 20:24
In article <4b7716b2$1(a)news.broadpark.no>,
Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo(a)start.no> wrote:
>
>
>spooky130u(a)NOSPAM.gmail.com wrote:
>> one other possibility: booting from the boot disk from the distro, and
>> starting FreeBSD on the USB drive from there.
>
>Yes, this is possible. I wrote a quick tip about it here:
>http://geekinfo.net/article.php?story=20070107031455259

Thanks - I'll try it out, but probably not until morning.



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