From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 16:45:50 2005 Return-Path: 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 D12D516A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:45:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B8EB43D2F for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:45:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bmk0@pacbell.net) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (bmk0@pacbell.net@67.174.233.252 with plain) by smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2005 16:45:50 -0000 Message-ID: <41F52638.3030509@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:45:44 -0800 From: "Brian M. Kincaid" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: normal1.lists@gmail.com X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual booting w/ two disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:45:51 -0000 I have been running a dual boot system with Windows and FreeBSD on separate disks for several years. I use just the basic FreeBSD MBR boot program, installed using the procedure described in the Handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html Windows XP needs to be on the first disk (Disk 0) and you can put FreeBSD on the other disk. Windows installation will clobber the FreeBSD boot block, so you need to write over it with the Handbook procedure. Brian