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Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 02:29 am, Jud wrote:
> > > My question is: does FreeBSD's boot loader support loading XP?
> > > Because I've heard XP doesn't like it's MBR being overwritten. Is this
> > > true?
> >
> > I believe both statements are true.
> > Anyway, you can boot XP with FreeBSD's MBR and that's the important one.
>
> Jerry's right and so's Adam.  I happen to be using GAG right now, because
> it's pretty automagic and I have a slightly complicated setup.

I installed XP, then FreeBSD on my machine and it all works fine with the 
FreeBSD boot loader. That said maybe I should try GAG, the font is a bit 
ugly, but at least the XP partion on boot time wouldnt appear as '??'.

(:
 
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