From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 5 12:52:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D378C37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com (msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com [192.25.240.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4012C43F93 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from relcos2.cos.agilent.com (relcos2.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.237]) by msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E11E61C1E; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:52:24 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by relcos2.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29763531; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:52:24 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_25184)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id MAA28748; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:52:23 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200303052052.MAA28748@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: Dimitar.Peikov@borg.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot0cfg Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:13:07 PST." <20030305201307.63A8D5D04@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.7) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:52:22 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > For any system less than about 4 year old and may older systems, you > really want to use this option. The other possibility, if both FreeBSD and XP are installed on the same disk, is to just use XP's boot selector to select which one to boot. It can be a lot easier than having to deal with boot sector issues. For more information, see: http://bsdatwork.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=3 (This is for the case where Windows & FreeBSD are on the SAME drive.) (Also read the OpenBSD section for additional WinXP info.) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message