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Subject: Re: Dual Booting FreeBSD and Windows XP Pro
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At 15:18 2002/05/14 -0500, Nick Lozinsky wrote:
>---- Original Message -----
>From: "Nelis Lamprecht" <nelis@brabys.co.za>
>To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:43 AM
>Subject: Dual Booting FreeBSD and Windows XP Pro
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I want setup my new machine to dual boot between Windows XP Pro and
>FreeBSD
> > and I thought I would just check with the list for any tips. Unfortunately
> > I have to support Winbloze Lusers so I don't have much choice. Do I
>install
> > WinXP first and then FreeBSD or vice versa ? Do I use the FreeBSD Boot
> > Manager or should I just use the WinXP Boot Manager and alter the boot.ini
> > file to include a FreeBSD bootup ?
> >
>
>Hi,
>
>Install WinXP first, then BSD. You can use whichever bootloader you want,
>but the FreeBSD loader will give you stuff like this:
>
>F1 - ???
>F3 - FreeBSD


Another easy way is to install, once FreeBSD is up and running, Grub
from the ports.  FreeBSD's Grub seems to be a bit better than
most Linux versions--my RH version of Grub for example, won't
boot another distro running devfs while FreeBSD's version had no trouble.


I have a page on Grub for newbies at
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/grub.html  which, though
aimed more atthe beginner to Linux, might be a
reasonable introduction.

Hope this helps
Scott Robbins



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