From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 21:48:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8AB16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:48:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.mts.net (smtp1.mts.net [205.200.16.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90EBB43D46 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gval@mts.net) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (wnpgmb01dc6-40-11.dynamic.mts.net [142.161.40.11])i0U5m8dj008919; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:48:09 -0600 (CST) From: greg To: K Claussen In-Reply-To: <4019A222.8070700@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <1075420318.743.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4019A222.8070700@sdf.lonestar.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1075441682.783.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:48:03 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Release 5.2 and XP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 05:48:11 -0000 On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 18:15, K Claussen wrote: > I actually did something similar -- if not exactly the same.. the best > solution that I could come up with was to use BootIt NG > (http://www.bootitng.com/) to boot the system. That was the only of the > approximately 15 solutions that I tried that worked. > > Now, the PC in question is exclusively FreeBSD, so I don't have to worry > about it.. but check out BootIt NG.. also, I'd be curious if anyone had > any luck with other methods.. > I did some research on Boot It. It is a Windows solution. The MBR would load code/data off of an MS filesystem. This is not what I am looking for, as BSD is my primary OS. I am looking for a BSD or GPL solution. > -- Kurt -- greg