boot0 vs XP

[Ivan Voras]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> I recently reinstalled Windows XP on my laptop (I barely use it but 
> occasionally it comes in handy :) and when I did the install it made 
> the base drive E (no idea why, and I couldn't see how to change it).

This is a well-known problem (at least to those who deal with 
dual-booting Windows and FreeBSD often) - if you (re)install Windows at 
any point AFTER installing FreeBSD, it will complain. This is not 
FreeBSD-specific: Windows really wants to mess around with its mappings 
of drives ("C:", etc.) to primary partitions during SETUP (extended 
partitions are mostly fine).

I don't know the solution to this - I've always had to reinstall 
everything when that happened, but you might try writing down the 
parameters of your FreeBSD partition, then delete it, then reinstall 
Windows, verify that everything's working, then restore your FreeBSD 
partition. This is, of course, extremely risky.

For me, it always works if I install Windows first, then FreeBSD later, 
never the other way around.

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