> From: John Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:10:06 -0700 > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > hello all, > > Having had a positive experience thus far with 5.1-RELEASE and -current beyond > that on one of the new boxes I recently built, it is now time to build up the > dual-boot system (BSD for me, WinXP for the wife ;). I've read different > reports (some from laptop users) about using the WinXP loader to boot FreeBSD > and I've also read reports that people used the standard boot-easy to boot both > (while even others using GRUB). > > Are there currently any issues with dual-booting 5.1-RELEASE and/or -current > along with Windows XP (probably SP1)? This would be on the same physical > disk. What do you other -current users who are faced with dual booting XP do > for the most part?
I'm partial to BootEasy. It's not sexy, but it is simple and reliable and has one very nice capability that the others with which I am familiar lack. It will default to re-booting he system which was last booted. This is not an overwhelming thing, but I find it nice, so I use it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
