Re: boot0 vs XP

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
I recently reinstalled Windows XP on my laptop (I barely use it but occasionally it comes in handy :) and when I did the install it made the base drive E (no idea why, and I couldn't see how to change it).

This is a well-known problem (at least to those who deal with dual-booting Windows and FreeBSD often) - if you (re)install Windows at any point AFTER installing FreeBSD, it will complain. This is not FreeBSD-specific: Windows really wants to mess around with its mappings of drives ("C:", etc.) to primary partitions during SETUP (extended partitions are mostly fine).

I don't know the solution to this - I've always had to reinstall everything when that happened, but you might try writing down the parameters of your FreeBSD partition, then delete it, then reinstall Windows, verify that everything's working, then restore your FreeBSD partition. This is, of course, extremely risky.

For me, it always works if I install Windows first, then FreeBSD later, never the other way around.

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