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From: Jim Durham <durham@shazam.w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD & WinXP
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:11:12 -0500
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On Thursday 08 November 2001 06:01 am, AlphaDemon wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have have finished installing FreeBSD 4.4 and my system has WinXP, but
> after installation, when it reboots
>
> there is no OS chooser menu comes out and my machine boots straight to
> WinXP.
>
> I am installing it on a different partition and selected to use MBR options
> to boot.
>
> I did not have this problem when I was running Win2k ,
>
> Is there something that Micro$oft has done so that other OS cannot be
> installed ?
>
> Is there any other way to it.
>
> I even tried Linux and it failed to, so does BeOS .
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
Well, I don't know about XP, but previous versions of windows have written 
over the boot sector of the hard drive and killed the FreeBSD boot.

This is really poor and inexcuseable on their part, but the fix is just to
use something like os-bs (Operating System Boot Select) to reinstall
the menuing choice in the boot record. You'll find it and similar
utilities in the "tools" section of your CD or on the freebsd FTP site.

-Jim

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