Dual booting w/ two disks

[Brian M. Kincaid]

Yup, Windows needs to be the first disk.


gabriel wrote:
> In my case, freebsd is on the master and windows is on the slave, you
> mean that it should be the other way around?
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> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:45:44 -0800, Brian M. Kincaid <bmk0 at pacbell.net> wrote:
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>>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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