Multi-Booting With Windows XP Pro

David Jenkins david.jenkins at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 12:30:12 PDT 2004


On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:04:53 -0400, Bryan Nelson <bnelson715 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Deoes anyone have any experience getting FreeBSD to multi-boot with Windows
> XP Pro?  Am using XP Pro SP2 and FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE.  I installed the
> boot manager but everytime I reboot it boots straight to XP.  Any help would
> be appreciated.
> 
> Bryan
> bnelson715 at hotmail.com

Yep,

Don't use the boot manager from FreeBSD. IMHO, I've had less problems
by copying BOOTSECT.BSD to C:\ and modifying your boot.ini file in
Windows.

Search google. I've just tried, and I pulled these results.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=windows+xp+freebsd+dual+boot+bootsect.bsd&spell=1

Hope this helps,

David


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