BSD Booting question (with windows)?

[Andy Scheriff]

Hi.

I just installed freebsd on my laptop yesterday. I have a previous
version of windows on there (windows XP Home) as well. I was told by a
friend that I would be able to boot between BSD and windows easily,
however I seem to be having some problems. I am using that bootloader
that BSD recommends you use.

My problem is that when I reach the boot screen, and try to boot to
DOS (windows), it gives me the following error:

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file."

And that is about it. I've never formally used BSD before, so I am
kind of in the dark on what to do next. I know the logical thing would
be to just replace the file, and that is really easy for me to do from
DOS, but I am not sure how to go about doing this in BSD. Could you
please help me?

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- Andy Scheriff