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>*** book.sgml.orig	Sat Jun 10 13:55:37 2000
>--- book.sgml	Sat Jun 10 16:25:13 2000
>***************
>*** 4390,4399 ****
>  <para>For FreeBSD 3.x systems the procedure is somewhat simpler.</para>
>  
>  <para>If FreeBSD is installed on the same disk as the NT boot partition
>! copy <filename>/boot/boot1</filename> to <filename>c:\bootsect.bsd</filename>
>! or if FreeBSD is installed on a different disk copy
>! <filename>/boot/boot0</filename> to <filename>c:\bootsect.bsd</filename>.
>! Then edit <filename>c:\bootsect.ini</filename> as described earlier.</para>
>  
>  </answer></qandaentry>
>  
>--- 4390,4420 ----
>  <para>For FreeBSD 3.x systems the procedure is somewhat simpler.</para>
>  
>  <para>If FreeBSD is installed on the same disk as the NT boot partition
>! simply copy <filename>/boot/boot1</filename> to <filename>C:\BOOTSECT.BSD
>! </filename> However, if FreeBSD is installed on a different disk
>! <filename>/boot/boot1</filename> will not work, <filename>/boot/boot0
>! </filename> is needed.
>! 
>! <warning>
>!   <para>DO NOT SIMPLY COPY <filename>/boot/boot0</filename> INSTEAD OF
>!   <filename>/boot/boot1</filename>, YOU WILL OVERWRITE YOUR PARTITION TABLE 
>!   AND RENDER YOUR COMPUTER UN-BOOTABLE!</para></warning>
>! 
>! <filename>/boot/boot0</filename> needs to be installed using sysinstall by
>! selecting the FreeBSD boot manager on the screen which asks if you wish to
>! use a boot manager. This is because <filename>/boot/boot0</filename> has the
>! partition table area filled with NULL characters but sysinstall copies the
>! partition table before copying <filename>/boot/boot0</filename> to the MBR.
>! </para>
>! 
>! <para>When the FreeBSD boot manager runs it records the last OS booted by
>! setting the active flag on the partition table entry for that OS and then
>! writes the whole 512-bytes of itself back to the MBR so if you just copy
>! <filename>/boot/boot0</filename> to <filename>C:\BOOTSECT.BSD</filename>
>! then it writes an empty partition table, with the active flag set on one
>! entry, to the MBR.</para>
>! 
>! <para>I write from bitter personal experience of this.</para>
>  
>  </answer></qandaentry>

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