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From: "Oliver, Michael W." <oliver.michael@gargantuan.com>
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Subject: RE: FreeBSD & WinXP
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:05:19 -0500 
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I am dual-booting WinXP and FreeBSD 4.4 on a Gateway SOLO-9300cl, and it is
working fine.  Of course, WinXP was installed first, and then FreeBSD,
choosing the FreeBSD boot loader during installation.  This is what I see
when I boot up:



F1: ??
F2: FreeBSD

Default F2



Even though the boot loader doesn't type 'Windows' next to F1, it is really
there.  I have heard birds chirping about this problem on some systems and
not on others, so I guess I got lucky.

HTH,

Michael Oliver



 

-----Original Message-----
From: AlphaDemon
To: Freebsd
Sent: 11/8/2001 6:01 AM
Subject: FreeBSD & WinXP

Hi All,

I have have finished installing FreeBSD 4.4 and my system has WinXP, but
after installation, when it reboots

there is no OS chooser menu comes out and my machine boots straight to
WinXP.

I am installing it on a different partition and selected to use MBR
options
to boot.

I did not have this problem when I was running Win2k ,

Is there something that Micro$oft has done so that other OS cannot be
installed ?

Is there any other way to it.

I even tried Linux and it failed to, so does BeOS .

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Alpha


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