From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 6 14:46:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 78B9F16A41F for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:46:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9598143D5D for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:46:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i23so45100wra for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:46:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lDZNj85qx5O+pjnIiYZu+ZrkLRmF8mME8NCPbCedN2aYtTH1bMJEfKQDHyG/9u4rM7UhxHFWpSZtVlq7kwI8y+o4CcfgTHTPzE+0FzTfDC5W2MALUK0LzjumUuwvSVovE+ukKiS91gfX/4V8DcjEse+g+xC3jBQ7LJj6PwUK7U4= Received: by 10.64.210.7 with SMTP id i7mr548276qbg; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:46:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.214.16 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 06:46:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4dd4cddf0512060646y9985c46n@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:46:12 +0000 From: Martin Tournoy To: martinko In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <000601c5f3d4$61e01960$6507050a@bigkahunah> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DualBoot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:46:17 -0000 Dual-boot is always a bit of a risk to install, backup your important data first... I have good experiences with the GAG bootmanager, which can be installed as a port sysutils/gag, and the website is http://gag.sourceforge.net/ You can just create a boot floppy, and either save the config on the floppy or the MBR, it simple and easy, unlike lilo or grub On 04/12/05, martinko wrote: > Mr. Albritton wrote: > > How viable is it to install FreeBSD along side WinXP? (Dual Boot) Als= o, can the BSD MBR be removed once it's installed? I've tried FIXMBR with = the WinXP CD and it didn't work.... Any suggestions? > > --- > > Mike Albritton > > albritton77@earthlink.net > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" > > > > you don't have to install fbsd's mbr at all. you could use win nt/xp > boot manager. but fot that to work you would need to create a boot > sector image to boot fbsd. i've achieved it with software called > bootpart. or you can use grub. > > btw, my winxp stopped working after i tried to install 2nd installation > of fbsd -- i had 5.4 and i installed 6.0. most unfortunately, fdisk > shuffled partitions and my grub stopped working properly. i managed to > fix it by hand (good old norton disk editor) and everything works fine > but winxp -- i got a message saying something like it cannot load hal > file or something. :-(( > > martin > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >