Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:26:10 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: nl3481@wi.rr.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, eburke@intelos.com Subject: Re: WindowsXP Pro and FreeBSD Message-ID: <1020097570.9e379ffcjud@myrealbox.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Eric B." <eburke@intelos.com> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:04:05 -0500 Subject: Re: WindowsXP Pro and FreeBSD [snip] Multibooting WinNT 5 or 2000 and FreeBSD will work. To my knowledge, FreeBSD can be booted with almost any other OS. Although I and many other people have problems with the FreeBSD booteasy bootloader, after installing FreeBSD onto a disk with win2000, the menu to boot loader will look sonething similar to this: F1: ??? F2: FreeBSD I do not know how to get rid of the ???, and have not been provided with an answer. [snip] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hmm, I thought an answer had been provided. At the risk of repeating something that's recently appeared here: 1. You can't get rid of the ???. BootEasy doesn't provide a way to configure the menu entries. (This is in the FAQ at the FreeBSD web site.) 2. As you mentioned in a bit I snipped, the NT/W2K/XP bootloader can be configured to boot Windows and FreeBSD in a dual boot system. Instructions are in the FAQ at the FreeBSD web site. This has the advantage of allowing you to change the menu entries to say what you like (no ???). 3. Grub, which is a very good, very configurable bootloader (no ???, lots of other user-changeable stuff), is available as a FreeBSD port. It's located in /usr/ports/sysutils/grub. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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