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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:48:09 -0800
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Subject: Re: Dual booting w/ two disks
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In my case, freebsd is on the master and windows is on the slave, you
mean that it should be the other way around?


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:45:44 -0800, Brian M. Kincaid <bmk0@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 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
> 


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