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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:20:15 -0500
From:      "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm>
To:        "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, "Joel Gudknecht" <jgudknecht@marathonmultimedia.com>
Cc:        'freebsd-questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 4.9-RELEASE + XP Pro problem
Message-ID:  <1077297615.20387.181381564@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <200402201513.i1KFDab10175@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <200402201513.i1KFDab10175@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:13:35 -0500 (EST), "Jerry McAllister"
<jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> said:
> > 
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I'm having a hell of a time getting XP Pro and 4.9 on the same drive.
> > I've tried various ways to get them to co-exist to no avail.
> > Here's what I'm trying to accomplish;
> > 
> > 30 GB HD total
> > 
> > First 24 GB = XP
> > 
> > Last 6 GB = 4.9
> > 
> > Installed XP first, then 4.9, said NONE at the boot menu during install.
> 
> There is your problem right there.   
> You should have selected the full MBR.
> Then everything would have fallen in place with none of that 
> other fixboot stuff at all.
> 
> Just make sure your XP is fully installed first and boots OK
> Then install FreeBSD and select the MBR (not 'none' and not 'standard')
[snip]

Actually, you should choose to install a standard MBR and *not* to use
the FreeBSD boot loader in order to accomplish what you describe below.

> > What I want is to have the nt boot loader give the choice to boot into
> > bsd by using the boot1 -> bootsect.bsd method in boot.ini.

Read the following FAQ carefully.  If you try it and are unsuccessful,
come on back here and let us know what happened.

<URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER>;

Jud



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