Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:40:27 -0500 From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com> To: "John Reynolds" <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org>, <current@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Best Known Methods for dual booting WinXP + -current Message-ID: <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD1067F2006@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
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I use Grub to multi-boot XPpro, Linux & FreeBSD. Had to use FFS filesystem since Grub doesn't support UFS. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Reynolds [mailto:johnjen@reynoldsnet.org] > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 3:10 PM > To: current@freebsd.org > Subject: Best Known Methods for dual booting WinXP + -current > > > hello all, > > Having had a positive experience thus far with 5.1-RELEASE > and -current beyond > that on one of the new boxes I recently built, it is now time > to build up the > dual-boot system (BSD for me, WinXP for the wife ;). I've > read different > reports (some from laptop users) about using the WinXP loader > to boot FreeBSD > and I've also read reports that people used the standard > boot-easy to boot both > (while even others using GRUB). > > Are there currently any issues with dual-booting 5.1-RELEASE > and/or -current > along with Windows XP (probably SP1)? This would be on the > same physical > disk. What do you other -current users who are faced with > dual booting XP do > for the most part? > > Thanks, > > -Jr > > -- > John & Jennifer Reynolds johnjen at reynoldsnet.org www.reynoldsnet.org Sr. Physical Design Engineer - WCCG/CCE PDE jreynold at sedona.ch.intel.com Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! "Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses." _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"help
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