Dual booting w/ two disks

gabriel normal1.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 08:48:13 PST 2005


In my case, freebsd is on the master and windows is on the slave, you
mean that it should be the other way around?


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:45:44 -0800, Brian M. Kincaid <bmk0 at pacbell.net> wrote:
> I have been running a dual boot system with Windows and FreeBSD on
> separate disks for several years. I use just the basic FreeBSD MBR boot
> program, installed using the procedure described in the Handbook.
>  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
> 
> Windows XP needs to be on the first disk (Disk 0) and you can put
> FreeBSD on the other disk. Windows installation will clobber the FreeBSD
> boot block, so you need to write over it with the Handbook procedure.
> 
> Brian
> 


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