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> >> 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.
> >
> > You are wrong here.   During the install you are offered three options:
> >
> >     BootMgr   Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager
> >     Standard  Install a standard MBR (no boot manager)
> >     None      Leave the Master Boot Record untouched
> >
> > You want to choose the first one to install the FreeBSD Boot Manager
> > The standard boot record will only boot FreeBSD and nothing else.
> 
> If the OP had said he wanted to use the FreeBSD boot loader, I would have  
> been wrong to tell him to install the standard MBR.  But what he asked for  
> is to use the *NT bootloader* to boot into FreeBSD.  (Read what the OP  
> wrote just below my sig.)  To do what he asked (use the NT bootloader),  
> rather than what you are intent on telling him (how to use the FreeBSD  
> bootloader), the correct method is to install a standard MBR and then  
> follow the instructions in the FAQ I cited below.

OK.  I ignored that part, partly for reason. 
I took it more as a desire to make it work rather than
specifically use the NT loader.

////jerry

> 
> Jud
>