Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Wed Jul 30 14:55:32 PDT 2003


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> Hello,
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> 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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