Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:13:16 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Efren Bravo <efrenba@dhl.co.cu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot menu (WinXp - freeBSD) Message-ID: <430BC9AC.3050200@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <WorldClient-F200508231612.AA12350003@dhl.co.cu> References: <WorldClient-F200508231612.AA12350003@dhl.co.cu>
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Efren Bravo wrote: >Hi, > >For the interested, I solved the problem using this: >http://gag.sourceforge.net it works ok.... > > >Thanks a lot... > > > >>Hi, >> >>Finally I could install fBSD, I had to upgrade the bios. >> >>My PC had WinXP on the fist partition and on the other one I installed >>fBSD, what do I have to write in the boot.ini(winXP) to choose which OS >>should be loaded? >> >> >>No idea. But if you install the FreeBSD boot manager then that will >>boot both XP and FreeBSD. >> >> Ah, forgot about that. Still requires a boot manager to be installed in the boot sector for any Linux distros IIRC, but it essentially takes care of everything else to a certain extent. -Garrett
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