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Date:      Fri, 08 Aug 2003 19:52:27 +0100
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Best Known Methods for dual booting WinXP + -current
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030808194300.02a70668@gid.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <16178.45598.863932.632053@whale.home-net>

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Hi,

You can boot FreeBSD from the XP boot manager: see 
http://bsdvault.net/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=88

[This used to be in the FAQ and perhaps should be resurrected there.]

At 21:10 7/8/03, John Reynolds wrote:
>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
>
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