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From: Chris Pearce <ferox@paradise.net.nz>
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Subject: Re: Dualbooting XP and FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:49:00 +1300
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Hey,

I use XOSL boot loader:
http://www.xosl.org/

It's very good, looks cool too..... I don't know if it can
handle XP though, I'm dual booting with Win98SE.


Hope that helps,
Chris Pearce.


On Monday 29 October 2001 23:51, you wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I installed XP at the weekend and it stomped over my MBR. I have
> booted FreeBSD from CD and used the fixit disk, but I can't seem to
> redo the bootloader config.
>
> I have the following drives
> ad4
> ad5
> ad7
>
> ad4 just has 2 windows partitions on it (Primary and Extended)
> ad5 has a FreeBSD partition with multiple slices.
>
> boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad5s1a
> works fine.
>
> boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad4 doesn't seem to work. What
> partition should I be aiming this at on the windows drive?
>
> Also, do I need to do anything to the boot.ini in XP or does the
> bootmanager come in before this ?
>
> TIA,

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