Freebsd dual boot windows xp

The second important thing is to chose the option "Install BootMgr". And you're done. It worked perfectly for me. I think that the important part is to install windows first, and to make sure it is installed in the first slice of your disk. Eespecially dual boot. Really I hate to have more than 1 os on my system. But this is good thread for all this they want to do it.

This is reasonably best choice to manage different OS situation. If they are all on disk0 why bother with grub - it's an unessesary extra step with zero gain, just copy out FreeBSD's boot1 and load it from win7 boot manager. Fast, simple, elegant and user-friendliest boot selection.

Bunyan Active Member Reaction score: 17 Messages: If you really want to give FreeBSD a try, just dedicate it the whole hard disk and dive into it. Another idea is to use GAG on a floppy. JimW Member Reaction score: 10 Messages: I've learned over the years that if you want to have multiple operating systems on a single machine Also, if you want multiple versions of Windows on the same machine, always install the oldest version of Windows first. Bunyan: Yeah, I had read something about a boot.

As for Dual Booting, I must say that I am new to Freebsd, and that my knowledge of Unix is limited to a few months struggling happily with Archlinux wich is a very nice linux distro , so I didn't want to leave everything to BSD at first. JimW: I second that. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. New posts. Search forums. Log in. Install the app. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.

You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter Moutombi Start date Jul 15, Thank you for any help. I am sure a lot of people are looking for an answer to this. Frankly, I not remember how to do this in right way.

But, I will try to help You. And I think that adding third system, will be not a big problem or it should not be. It is only an example, how config file could look like. Read it very carefully. Much easier way? If you insist on using Grub, and if the FreeBSD boot manager is still loading it's the program that let's you hit e. F1 or F2 for different partitions , then you most likely did not run grub-install.

However, I would question using Grub. I really like the way the FreeBSD boot manager works. The only think you have to be aware of with the FreeBSD boot manager is that it "delegates" full execution to whichever partition you choose.