boot menu (WinXp - freeBSD)

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Wed Aug 24 01:14:20 GMT 2005


Efren Bravo wrote:

>Hi,
>
>For the interested, I solved the problem using this:
>http://gag.sourceforge.net it works ok....
>  
>  
>Thanks a lot...
>
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Finally I could install fBSD, I had to upgrade the bios.
>>
>>My PC had WinXP on the fist partition and on the other one I installed
>>fBSD, what do I have to write in the boot.ini(winXP) to choose which OS
>>should be loaded?
>> 
>>
>>No idea.  But if you install the FreeBSD boot manager then that will
>>boot both XP and FreeBSD.
>>    
>>
Ah, forgot about that. Still requires a boot manager to be installed in 
the boot sector for any Linux distros IIRC, but it essentially takes 
care of everything else to a certain extent.
-Garrett


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