Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:10:24 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@fivesight.com> To: "shn" <shn@shnonline.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Windows Boot Menu Message-ID: <15330.43344.603694.347502@apu.five.sight> In-Reply-To: <001101c16393$1302d6a0$7c017acb@shnonline> References: <001101c16393$1302d6a0$7c017acb@shnonline>
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> When installing FreeBSD on a system I want to dual boot with > windows. I wanted to know if FreeBSD wipes the MBR and puts its own > boot menu in thereby removing the windows boot menu and not allowing > me to boot into windows. FreeBSD wipes your MBR if and only if you ask it to do so during installation. If you do, then it installs a bootloader program which will allow you to boot from any disk slice you please, including the one with Windows on it. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html Welcome to FreeBSD. > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > [ ... ] Many (most?) of us don't have HTML-aware mail clients. Please don't do that. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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