From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 16:31:48 2002 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 587B537B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:31:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975AD43EB2 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:31:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gBH0V9K17932; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:31:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200212170031.gBH0V9K17932@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP To: mikemcg@ucla.edu Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:31:09 -0500 (EST) Cc: davar@mwvcaa.org (David Varieur), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <01b601c2a562$44da9930$1a00a8c0@HOME> from "Mike McGranahan" at Dec 16, 2002 04:21:38 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Maybe I missed it earlier, but do you have any firm reasons not to use > grub? It takes a lot of the frustration out of multi-booting (too bad there > is still so much left over). > > In my initial search for information, I couldn't determine how to use GRUB > to boot Windows XP. The GRUB manual didn't specifically address Windows > NT/2K/XP. I'll read more about GRUB and perhaps give it a shot. No reason not to if you want to. But, you don't need to if you're willing to put up with XP being labeled as '???' in the OS selection menu which the regular FreeBSd boot manager will give you. ////jerry > > Mike > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message