From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 4 15:34:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 E20D616A41F for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 15:34:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B37843D68 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 15:34:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Eivs8-0007ce-6E for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:33:52 +0100 Received: from r5k4.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.10.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:33:52 +0100 Received: from martinkov by r5k4.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:33:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:32:44 +0100 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <000601c5f3d4$61e01960$6507050a@bigkahunah> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5k4.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051114 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <000601c5f3d4$61e01960$6507050a@bigkahunah> Sender: news Subject: Re: DualBoot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:34:37 -0000 Mr. Albritton wrote: > How viable is it to install FreeBSD along side WinXP? (Dual Boot) Also, can the BSD MBR be removed once it's installed? I've tried FIXMBR with the WinXP CD and it didn't work.... Any suggestions? > --- > Mike Albritton > albritton77@earthlink.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" > you don't have to install fbsd's mbr at all. you could use win nt/xp boot manager. but fot that to work you would need to create a boot sector image to boot fbsd. i've achieved it with software called bootpart. or you can use grub. btw, my winxp stopped working after i tried to install 2nd installation of fbsd -- i had 5.4 and i installed 6.0. most unfortunately, fdisk shuffled partitions and my grub stopped working properly. i managed to fix it by hand (good old norton disk editor) and everything works fine but winxp -- i got a message saying something like it cannot load hal file or something. :-(( martin