BSD Booting question (with windows)?

2004-10-04 Thread Andy Scheriff
Hi. I just installed freebsd on my laptop yesterday. I have a previous version of windows on there (windows XP Home) as well. I was told by a friend that I would be able to boot between BSD and windows easily, however I seem to be having some problems. I am using that bootloader that BSD

Re: BSD Booting question (with windows)?

2004-10-04 Thread Eric Schuele
On Monday 04 October 2004 11:03 am, Andy Scheriff wrote: Hi. I just installed freebsd on my laptop yesterday. I have a previous version of windows on there (windows XP Home) as well. I was told by a friend that I would be able to boot between BSD and windows easily, however I seem to be

Re: BSD Booting question (with windows)?

2004-10-04 Thread Murray Taylor
More importantly did you defrag the windows installation _before_ doing any repartitioning?? Note that defrag doesnt necessarily move _all_ files down to the low end of the disk. I had to scour the net for other tools to finally get EVERYTHING packed down low on the disk. Then and only then can