From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 14:55:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E66637B401 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81E543F93 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:55:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6ULtSOg025910; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:55:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6ULtQOv025909; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:55:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200307302155.h6ULtQOv025909@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: avivdog@bezeqint.net Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:55:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <17010257562.20030730184125@bezeqint.net> from "Aviv" at Jul 30, 2003 06:41:25 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:55:32 -0000 > > Hello, > > I have a computer with Windows XP installed on it. > I want to dual boot it with FreeBSD. > My question is: does FreeBSD's boot loader support loading XP? > Because I've heard XP doesn't like it's MBR being overwritten. Is this > true? I believe both statements are true. Anyway, you can boot XP with FreeBSD's MBR and that's the important one. ////jerry > > > > > -- > Best regards, > Aviv mailto:avivdog@bezeqint.net > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >