Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:49:00 +1300 From: Chris Pearce <ferox@paradise.net.nz> To: wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dualbooting XP and FreeBSD Message-ID: <01103010490000.00362@Ferox> In-Reply-To: <86itcyg1ms.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> References: <86itcyg1ms.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
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Hey, I use XOSL boot loader: http://www.xosl.org/ It's very good, looks cool too..... I don't know if it can handle XP though, I'm dual booting with Win98SE. Hope that helps, Chris Pearce. On Monday 29 October 2001 23:51, you wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed XP at the weekend and it stomped over my MBR. I have > booted FreeBSD from CD and used the fixit disk, but I can't seem to > redo the bootloader config. > > I have the following drives > ad4 > ad5 > ad7 > > ad4 just has 2 windows partitions on it (Primary and Extended) > ad5 has a FreeBSD partition with multiple slices. > > boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad5s1a > works fine. > > boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad4 doesn't seem to work. What > partition should I be aiming this at on the windows drive? > > Also, do I need to do anything to the boot.ini in XP or does the > bootmanager come in before this ? > > TIA, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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