On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:38:03 -0800 Mike Maltese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote:
>
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > Do you have WinXP and FreeBSD on the same disc or on two separate discs?
> >
> > Thanatos
> >
> >
>
> Same physical disk. Windoze is on ad0s1 and FBSD is on ad0s2. At the
> moment I'm looking into restoring XP's MBR and then utilizing it's boot
> manager by copying the FreeBSD boot blocks. I know this can be done with
> Linux, we'll see about FreeBSD. =) I can't believe this isn't working,
> I've had great success in the past with dual-booting. The mainboard is a
> Shuttle AK12 and I just flashed the BIOS to the latest version. It's not
> the newest board, so I'm wondering if I'm running into the 1024 cylinder
> limit thing.
If your win slice is >8G, you probably are. You should shrink it. Boot
areas of both Windows and FreeBSD (part of win and FreeBSD root) should
fit into the first 8G for BootEasy to work.
> Help me out here guys, I'm trying to make a convert out of my friend!
:)
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