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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 15:16:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dual-boot with NT OS loader question
Message-ID:  <20010517221647.4756.qmail@web10305.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B042417.E1E0A78E@urx.com>

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Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> wrote:

> When you add FreeBSD, you probably can just newfs the Linux partition as
> a FreeBSD filesystem and leave the mbr alone. Then you add /boot/boot1
> as bootsect.bsd to your "c" drive. The FreeBSD slice has to be a primary
> partition in NT terminology. I think Linux can install to an extended
> partition. You can also delete the Linux partition and make it FreeBSD
> at that point.
>  
> Next, you replace your entry in boot.ini with something like
> c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD"
> 
> It works like a charm.

Indeed it did, thanks mate!

Cheers,
Graham

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