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Date:      Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:24:47 +0100
From:      dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how to dual boot
Message-ID:  <20051227102447.GB7107@lothlorien.nagual.st>
In-Reply-To: <200512262140.jBQLeE13020313@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <do5cff$onp$1@sea.gmane.org> <200512262140.jBQLeE13020313@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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On 26 Dec Jerry McAllister wrote:
> Just put the FreeBSD install CD back in and install the FreeBSD MBR.
> It will give you a choice as to which to boot.   It works just fine.
> It's only quirk is that, if the MS slice is an NTFS type of filesystem
> it will identify it as ??? in the menu rather than MS-DOS as it
> identifies the FAT type file systems.

That weirdness is over in 6.x
NTFS partitions are under "Fx DOS" now and I must say I like this much
better then "???"

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