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Date:      Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:39:29 -0600
From:      "Harley D. Eades III" <hde@foobar-qux.org>
To:        Marty Landman <martster@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to dual boot
Message-ID:  <1134769169.34653.60.camel@devilBSD.freeBSD>
In-Reply-To: <70063950512161331u294280cdl8bd552be9426752c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <70063950512161331u294280cdl8bd552be9426752c@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 16:31 -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> I'm trying to get a dual boot system set up with FBSD 5.3 and Win XP sp1.
> First I installed FBSD using 15GB of the HD, then installed XP on the
> remaining 5GB. However now it boots up XP automatically. I can get back to
> the FBSD installer by booting from the 5.3 CD but what do I do to provide a
> choice of which to boot right on the HD?
If you can get to freebsd use the freebsd bootloader and renable it
via fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 device, or you could install grub and use
it.

see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
and
http://www.pl.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/article.html

Cheers && _GOOD_LUCK_

-- Harley
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