Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 15:18:34 -0500 From: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Nelis Lamprecht" <nelis@brabys.co.za> Subject: Re: Dual Booting FreeBSD and Windows XP Pro Message-ID: <000d01c1fb84$ce1fcd10$145c1f41@un1x> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020514093706.0135e0d0@192.96.48.11>
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---- Original Message ----- From: "Nelis Lamprecht" <nelis@brabys.co.za> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:43 AM Subject: Dual Booting FreeBSD and Windows XP Pro > Hi > > I want setup my new machine to dual boot between Windows XP Pro and FreeBSD > and I thought I would just check with the list for any tips. Unfortunately > I have to support Winbloze Lusers so I don't have much choice. Do I install > WinXP first and then FreeBSD or vice versa ? Do I use the FreeBSD Boot > Manager or should I just use the WinXP Boot Manager and alter the boot.ini > file to include a FreeBSD bootup ? > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Nelis > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Hi, Install WinXP first, then BSD. You can use whichever bootloader you want, but the FreeBSD loader will give you stuff like this: F1 - ??? F3 - FreeBSD In order to get rid of the ??? you have to, I believe, recompile the assembly file, boot.0? and substitute for the ???, but you can also use the XP boot loder, similar to the WinN/2000 boot loader. You are right, the boot.ini will have to be configured to know where to load the FreeBSD .pbr file that you create in BSD using the dd binary. Any more questions? Let me know. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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