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Thread-Topic: Best Known Methods for dual booting WinXP + -current
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From: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com>
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Subject: RE: Best Known Methods for dual booting WinXP + -current
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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]=20
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 3:10 PM
> To: current@freebsd.org
> Subject: Best Known Methods for dual booting WinXP + -current
>=20
>=20
> hello all,
>=20
> Having had a positive experience thus far with 5.1-RELEASE=20
> and -current beyond
> that on one of the new boxes I recently built, it is now time=20
> to build up the
> dual-boot system (BSD for me, WinXP for the wife ;). I've=20
> read different
> reports (some from laptop users) about using the WinXP loader=20
> to boot FreeBSD
> and I've also read reports that people used the standard=20
> boot-easy to boot both
> (while even others using GRUB).
>=20
> Are there currently any issues with dual-booting 5.1-RELEASE=20
> and/or -current
> along with Windows XP (probably SP1)? This would be on the=20
> same physical
> disk. What do you other -current users who are faced with=20
> dual booting XP do
> for the most part?
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> -Jr
>=20
> --=20
> John & Jennifer Reynolds  johnjen at reynoldsnet.org       =20
www.reynoldsnet.org
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