From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 13:10:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D81F37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:10:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao01.cox.net (lakemtao01.cox.net [68.1.17.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B1C43FA3 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnjen@reynoldsnet.org) Received: from ip68-99-84-124.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.99.84.124]) by lakemtao01.cox.netESMTP <20030807201008.VGMD7142.lakemtao01.cox.net@ip68-99-84-124.ph.ph.cox.net> for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:10:08 -0400 Received: from whale.home-net (whale.home-net [192.168.1.2]) h77KA7iD009313 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:10:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from johnjen@reynoldsnet.org) Received: from whale.home-net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whale.home-net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h77KA7fv010597 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:10:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from johnjen@reynoldsnet.org) Received: (from jjreynold@localhost) by whale.home-net (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h77KA7nF010594; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:10:07 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: whale.home-net: jjreynold set sender to johnjen@reynoldsnet.org using -f From: John Reynolds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16178.45598.863932.632053@whale.home-net> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:10:06 -0700 To: current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 6.88 under Emacs 20.7.1 Subject: Best Known Methods for dual booting WinXP + -current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 20:10:10 -0000 hello all, Having had a positive experience thus far with 5.1-RELEASE and -current beyond that on one of the new boxes I recently built, it is now time to build up the dual-boot system (BSD for me, WinXP for the wife ;). I've read different reports (some from laptop users) about using the WinXP loader to boot FreeBSD and I've also read reports that people used the standard boot-easy to boot both (while even others using GRUB). Are there currently any issues with dual-booting 5.1-RELEASE and/or -current along with Windows XP (probably SP1)? This would be on the same physical disk. What do you other -current users who are faced with dual booting XP do for the most part? Thanks, -Jr -- John & Jennifer Reynolds johnjen at reynoldsnet.org www.reynoldsnet.org Sr. Physical Design Engineer - WCCG/CCE PDE jreynold at sedona.ch.intel.com Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! "Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses."