I can't boot on Pc-Bsd after install

[Antho]

hello,
I have installed Pc-Bsd on a hard disk with Windows XP on another partition.
I have installed PC-BSD's MBR.

But when I start my computer, I must boot on windows XP, i can't see PC-BSD's MBR

sorry for my bad english, i'm a french student

Thanks for your help

[Johnson]

I have the same problem.
I installed PC-BSD 0.7.5 and after I rebooted the options given by the pc-bsd bootloader was "dos" (which was actually windowsxp) and another 2 entries pointing to another 2 partitions with no OS on them.
I tried using OSL2000 as a bootloader to boot PC-BSD but no success.
I installed PC-BSD on the first primary partition of my second hdd.
If you release a new installable version of PC-BSD it would be nice to also release a fix like a bootable floppy or a patch to the cd or iso image because downloading an cd image is not something easy.

[sblevin]

If you release a new installable version of PC-BSD it would be nice to also release a fix like a bootable floppy or a patch to the cd or iso image because downloading an cd image is not something easy.

OHHHH thats a nice idea, install the bootloader to floppy - perhaps then the dual booters of the world could work out how to load it to/from a loopback filesystem on an existing XP disk partition ..... but that means you would have to have a computer that still has a floppy, and load in a NTFS read/writeable FS - EEWWWW.

Perhaps a tool like http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/ to create a clean spot on the HD, and install something like http://gag.sourceforge.net/ or similar to the floppy .... but now it's getting messy and hard.

Does anyone like it messy and hard? If so, this is a job for YOU!

[Johnson]

I finaly managed to boot it using smartbootmanager.
It started at a 1027x768 desktop at 60Hz refresh rate for my 19" CRT monitor.
I tried to change the resolution and the refresh rate (for an 19" monitor a white bachground at 60Hz is flickering in a VERY anoying way) but the provided utility offered me only the option of 1024x768 at 87 Hz which didn't worked.
I tried editing the configuration file manualy.
I tried using "sudo" but there is no sudo so I used "su".
I tried "mc", but there is no mc, I tried "nano" but there is no nano, i tried kate but kate doesn't work with su because the root doesn't have an X server started so it crashed making a loud broken glass noise at my speakers.

Now the PC-BSD partition is no more.

[sblevin]

Johnson
to edit text files in a terminal - su to root - then use the "edit" command to open a nice little text editor in terminal - to exit the editor use CTRL + [ combo.