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On Wed Aug 11 20:59:08 2004 Karl Friedrich Gauss wrote:

> I'm trying to install freebsd 4.10 on second hard-drive. On the first 
> hard drive is winXP. When I run sysinstall from a cd-rom, it seems to 
> be unable to modify the mdr of my first hard drive. I tried to go into 
> fdisk, the just quit and install boot manager on first hard disk. It 
> doesn't work.
>
> When I reboot, I still enter in windows. What can I do?

As long as you have winXP installed why not use the ntloader.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER 

answers all of the relevant questions. Before i nuked windows from my
laptop this worked well.
cheers,
Thomas

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