Re: Dual-boot FreeBSD/XP

From: Greg Hennessy (me_at_privacy.org)
Date: 07/06/05


Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:02:29 +0100

On 06 Jul 2005 11:37:59 -0400, "Matthew X. Economou"
<xenophon+usenet@irtnog.org> wrote:

>>>>>> "Dom" == Dom <dom@invalid> writes:
>
> Dom> Alright, making progress. Did a fdisk -a to set the active
> Dom> partition and now it is booting into XP. Just have to
> Dom> configure the XP boot manager now.
>
>You probably already know about it, but just in case, check out
>"Bootpart by Gilles Volant":http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm. I
>haven't done a Windows/FreeBSD "duel-boot" in a while, preferring
>instead to use VMware, but I vaguely recall getting it all working
>nicely with Bootpart.
>

Seconded, bootpart does the job just nicely.

greg

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