Ok so currently I have XP and Slack booting on my laptop, the next two goals will be FreeBSD and Windows Server 2003, in that order (though I may need to start over and do server before unix/linux.

Either way, how I got linux interacting nicely with XP was via this link:

http://bratlady.com/linux_boot.shtml

One of the catches is I am using the Windows Boot manager, so the key to getting linux to work was this part of the deal:

dd if=/dev/hdc2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

Which I sorta went with, I have no idea what the file it creates really does nor even what the command itself executes, I know what they tell me on that site "rip the bootsector from our Linux root partition", so thats easy to understand right?

So now I suppose the question is, how do I accomplish the same thing with FreeBSD 5.3 so I can just plug the file into the windows boot loader and get it booting to it correctly?

Thanks,

J