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Subject: Re: WindowsXP Pro and FreeBSD
From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Eric B." <eburke@intelos.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:04:05 -0500
Subject: Re: WindowsXP Pro and FreeBSD

[snip]
Multibooting WinNT 5 or 2000 and FreeBSD will work. To my knowledge, FreeBS=
D
can be booted with almost any other OS. Although I and many other people
have problems with the FreeBSD booteasy bootloader, after installing FreeBS=
D
onto a disk with win2000, the menu to boot loader will look sonething
similar to this:

F1: ???
F2: FreeBSD

I do not know how to get rid of the ???, and have not been provided with an
answer.=20
[snip]

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Hmm, I thought an answer had been provided.  At the risk of repeating somet=
hing that's recently appeared here:

1. You can't get rid of the ???.  BootEasy doesn't provide a way to configu=
re the menu entries.  (This is in the FAQ at the FreeBSD web site.)

2. As you mentioned in a bit I snipped, the NT/W2K/XP bootloader can be con=
figured to boot Windows and FreeBSD in a dual boot system.  Instructions =
are in the FAQ at the FreeBSD web site.  This has the advantage of allowi=
ng you to change the menu entries to say what you like (no ???).

3. Grub, which is a very good, very configurable bootloader (no ???, lots o=
f other user-changeable stuff), is available as a FreeBSD port.  It's loc=
ated in /usr/ports/sysutils/grub.

Jud


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