Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:26:10 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: nl3481@wi.rr.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, eburke@intelos.com Subject: Re: WindowsXP Pro and FreeBSD Message-ID: <1020097570.9e379ffcjud@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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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