On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:13:35 -0500 (EST), "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > Hello All, > > > > I'm having a hell of a time getting XP Pro and 4.9 on the same drive. > > I've tried various ways to get them to co-exist to no avail. > > Here's what I'm trying to accomplish; > > > > 30 GB HD total > > > > First 24 GB = XP > > > > Last 6 GB = 4.9 > > > > Installed XP first, then 4.9, said NONE at the boot menu during install. > > There is your problem right there. > You should have selected the full MBR. > Then everything would have fallen in place with none of that > other fixboot stuff at all. > > Just make sure your XP is fully installed first and boots OK > Then install FreeBSD and select the MBR (not 'none' and not 'standard') [snip]
Actually, you should choose to install a standard MBR and *not* to use the FreeBSD boot loader in order to accomplish what you describe below. > > What I want is to have the nt boot loader give the choice to boot into > > bsd by using the boot1 -> bootsect.bsd method in boot.ini. Read the following FAQ carefully. If you try it and are unsuccessful, come on back here and let us know what happened. <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER> Jud _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"