From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 23:13:20 2006 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 0B4F116A420 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:13:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Received: from ns1.internetinsite.com (ns1.internetinsite.com [208.179.97.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7745143D72 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:13:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Received: from [192.168.4.100] (68-190-198-174.dhcp.ccmn.ca.charter.com [68.190.198.174]) by ns1.internetinsite.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1GNDBIH068189 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:13:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Message-ID: <43F50707.5050108@chrismaness.com> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:13:11 -0800 From: Chris Maness User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Windows XP and FreeBSD boot Question 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: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:13:20 -0000 I have had a bad time trying to get Windows XP to boot using the FreeBSD boot manager. Is there a way I can use the XP boot manager to boot FreeBSD. I use it to boot my Slackware partition, and it works like a charm. (i.e. dd if=/dev/hda2 of=Slack.lnx count=1 bs=512, then adding a line for Slack.lnx in boot.ini) Thanks Chris Maness