Subject: Re: dual-booting a WinXP box?
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/29/2004 14:14:47
Thus spake Daniel Carosone ("DC> ") sometime Tomorrow...
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:43:23PM -0500, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> > I'm about to install NetBSD on the second partition of a Windows XP
> > box. What's the best way to make it dual-boot? Is there any reason
> > not to use the NetBSD MBR stuff? (To date, I've had no problem with
> > the NetBSD boot on a Win2k machine.)
>
> The NetBSD mbr bootselector works very well for this.
Indeed (I'm doing it with no problems). In fact, if you install the mbr
bootselector on multiple disks, it falls through a chain very nicely :)
--*greywolf;
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