From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 22:35:39 2002 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 34BCD37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vincent.chocobo.cx (h00080e5bef0f.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.61.233.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C9B43E72 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:35:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@chocobo.cx) Received: from vincent.chocobo.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vincent.chocobo.cx (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7G5ZTed099845; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:35:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chip@chocobo.cx) Received: (from chip@localhost) by vincent.chocobo.cx (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7G5ZRor099844; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:35:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: vincent.chocobo.cx: chip set sender to chip@chocobo.cx using -f Subject: Re: Laptop + 1 HDD + FreeBSD + Windows From: Chip Marshall Reply-To: chip@chocobo.cx To: "Remington L." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <001501c244e5$8fdadcc0$a6038bd8@HITHERE> References: <001501c244e5$8fdadcc0$a6038bd8@HITHERE> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 16 Aug 2002 01:35:27 -0400 Message-Id: <1029476127.99795.4.camel@vincent.chocobo.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 01:26, Remington L. wrote: > How would I go about finding info on a reliable way to get FreeBSD and > Windows XP home booting off the same drive. I need to be able to boot > into both. Is LILO possible? Are there any MBR backup utilities out > there? What is "grub" where do I find info on it? Is it in the ports > collection? How reliable is it? Under both WinXP Pro and Home, I have been using the Windows boot loader. It's a little bit trickier to setup than the FreeBSD default loader, but it works. There are instructions in the FAQ for using the NT bootloader, these apply directly to the WinXP bootloader as well. You may want to access the settings through Control Panel -> System -> Advanded -> Boot Options (or something along those lines), though you still need to edit the ini file manually (there's a button in there to do that.) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER Someone may want to update the FAQ to include that this works on XP, and mention something about FreeBSD 4.x in there. Maybe I'll submit a patch or something. -- Chip Marshall http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a21>? C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N@ o K- w O M+ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+@ R@ tv@ b++@ DI++++ D+(-) G++ e>++ h>++ r++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message