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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:59:58 -0500
From:      Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm>
To:        "Mike McGranahan" <mikemcg@ucla.edu>
Cc:        cls@raggedclown.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP
Message-ID:  <20021216215958.27f7c2f3.judmarc@fastmail.fm>
In-Reply-To: <00ec01c2a551$ad925e60$1a00a8c0@HOME>
References:  <003001c2a503$fc39b340$1a00a8c0@HOME> <20021216151817.GA599@raggedclown.net> <20021216174520.67C1E3AE3@server2.fastmail.fm> <00ec01c2a551$ad925e60$1a00a8c0@HOME>

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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:22:52 -0800
"Mike McGranahan" <mikemcg@ucla.edu> wrote:

> > (2) Use the XP bootloader.  There's an FAQ about this at the
> > FreeBSD web site (I think it's called the NT bootloader in the FAQ),
> > which may be identical to what you found at Geocrawler.
> 
> This it the entry to which you are referring:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADE
> R Towards the end of the entry, the issue of FreeBSD on another disk
> is discussed, but I don't understand what they mean.  Do they mean
> that if you install FreeBSD on a non-boot disk, you must use
> sysinstall to install the FreeBSD loader on that disk, and then copy
> /boot/boot0 to C:\bootsect.bsd ?
> 
> Thanks for your help.

You know, I never could figure out what that last part meant myself. 
Anyone want to explain it to me and Mike?

Jud

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