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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:55:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        avivdog@bezeqint.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP
Message-ID:  <200307302155.h6ULtQOv025909@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <17010257562.20030730184125@bezeqint.net> from "Aviv" at Jul 30, 2003 06:41:25 PM

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> Hello,
> 
> I have a computer with Windows XP installed on it.
> I want to dual boot it with FreeBSD.
> My question is: does FreeBSD's boot loader support loading XP?
> Because I've heard XP doesn't like it's MBR being overwritten. Is this
> true?

I believe both statements are true.
Anyway, you can boot XP with FreeBSD's MBR and that's the important one.

////jerry

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>  Aviv                            mailto:avivdog@bezeqint.net
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