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Date:      Sat, 06 Jan 2001 19:41:58 -0800
From:      Rob <europax@home.com>
To:        "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com>
Cc:        'Nicholas Basila' <nbasila@epcot.revenio.com>, "'SKemokai@ORA.FDA.GOV'" <SKemokai@ORA.FDA.GOV>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FW: Mutlti-boot w/win2k professional
Message-ID:  <3A57E586.7D41DED8@home.com>
References:  <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E841@exchange.panasonicfa.com>

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(Sorry for my late response, @home was borked yesterday)

My laptop has Win2K as NTFS on partition 1, and FreeBSD 4.2 Release as
partition 2 on the same hard drive.  Win2K was installed first, then
later FreeBSD.  Partition 2 is marked active.

I selected the bootmanager option in install.  The dual boot works
perfectly.  

Good luck.  Rob.

"Zaitsau, Andrei" wrote:
> 
> The most hilarious part is...
> Win2K (NTFS) boot manager also does not see FreeBSD :)
> ughhh I guess they are really don't like each other :)
> -----
> 
> No, I didn't have to pass any special arguments to boot NTFS. It's quite
> strange
> that your bootmanager is having this problem with NTFS. Perhaps you could
> just
> use the NT boot manager?
> 
> Nicholas
> 
> "Zaitsau, Andrei" wrote:
> 
> > Hmmmm...That's really interesting. I installed FreeBSD 4.1.1, but when I
> > boot. Boot Manager can see only FreeBSD.... But not W2K NTFS partition.
> But
> > as soon as I changed NTFS to FAT it works fine. I have 15GB for W2K and
> 5GB
> > for FreeBSD.
> > May be I should try 4.2 version.
> > Or did you have to pass some special options arguments to boot NTFS?
> >
> > Interesting - I'm running 4.2 FreeBSD on a laptop with Win2K Pro using
> NTFS.
> > I
> > have no problems. I had to make FreeBSD the active partition, but the
> > FreeBSD
> > boot manager works without a hitch. I have the root filesystem in a small
> > eight
> > meg partition at the beginning of the drive, then a 10GB partition for
> > Windows.
> > Perhaps the older version of the Boot manager (3.3?) didn't support NTFS?
> >
> > > From: Zaitsau, Andrei [mailto:AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:05 AM
> > > To: 'Kemokai, Saffa'; 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'
> > > Subject: RE: Mutlti-boot w/win2k professional
> > >
> > > I think You can use 1 Drive but with 2 partitions on it.... 1st one For
> > > FreeBSD 2nd one for W2K.
> > > But if it's already installed(I mean W2K and FreeBSD) try to set FreeBSD
> > > partition as active (e.g. with help of fdisk), but do not set Microsoft
> > > partition as active.
> > > And one more thing, I do not know if FreeBSD boot Manager will boot NTFS
> > > Microsoft Partition (At least I could not work it out), but when I used
> > FAT
> > > filesystem with W2K pro it boots fine with FreeBSD.
> > > Good Luck !
> > > >
> > > I think you have just provided me with major issues to look at now. My
> W2K
> > > is in NTFS format. NTFS/FAT may in fact be the issue. Let me play with
> it
> > > with these new info.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Saffa
> > >
> > > I had the same configuration.
> > > The thing I did:
> > > 1) Created 2 partitions on Hard Drive
> > > 2) On the second partition I installed W2K Pro
> > > 3) I made 1st partition active and installed FreeBSD 4.1.1
> > > 4) I used FreeBSD boot manager.
> > >  Whoalah, it worked ! I had choice between W2K and FreeBSD :)
> > > Andrei.
> > >
> > > Thanks Andrei:
> > >
> > > It does look exactly what I did except I used 2 separate drives - drive
> 0
> > > holding w2k and drive 1 holding FreeBSD. I was hoping that by default,
> > > FreeBSD will load the bootloader on drive 0 or C. Maybe I do have
> machine
> > > situation since I started out doubting the Bios itself anyway...:)
> > >
> > > SaffA
> > > >
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > I am not sure whether I have a machine problem per se or config problem
> > > trying to multi-boot FreeBSD 3.3 with Windows 2000 Professional.
> > >
> > > I had Win2k installed first. I later installed FreeBSD 3.3 making sure
> > that
> > > BfreeBSD boot manager is accepted or included during the process of
> > creating
> > > the slices.  The installation completed fine but does boot to multi
> > > environment to select the OS I want to use. Instead, it boots directly
> > into
> > > Win2k.
> > >
> > > Any ideas what needs to be done here?
> > >
> > > Thanks ..:)
> > >
> > > Saffa
> > >
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