From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 28 12:39:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA27904 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:39:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from winky.reno.nv.us (winky.reno.nv.us [140.174.194.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA27898 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winky.reno.nv.us (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA02114; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:39:18 -0800 Message-Id: <199512282039.MAA02114@winky.reno.nv.us> X-Authentication-Warning: winky.reno.nv.us: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: ofarook <721.4992@mcimail.com> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WINDOWS NT BOOT MANAGER & FREEBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 Dec 1995 01:59:10 CST." <30E24E4E.68FA@mcimail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:39:16 -0800 From: Eric Blood Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message <30E24E4E.68FA@mcimail.com>you write: >Hi, > >I recently got a FREEBSD 2.1 CDROM FROM Walnut Creek. >I have two hard disks and I have both Windows NT 3.5 >and Windows 95 with NT BOOT LOADER (dual booting). >isk 1 has only one primary partition with WIN95 >and Disk 2 one primary partition with win NT (700M). >I created another primary partition in Disk 2 for FREEBSD >and tried to install it, but hard luck. > >My questions are > >1. With above configuration, can I install FREEBSD. I have a similar configuration. Mine was two SCSI 1 gig disks. The first was all Win 95 (still the beta June release; I can't bring myself to pay for it). The second disk was all FreeBSD. Then I split the Win95 and installed Windows NT. I noticed that it's dual boot program installed its self on the first partitions boot point. So my existing boot manager (OSBS) would ask for FreeBSD or Win95 and then I would get a secondary boot menu (when I go to Win95) asking for NT or Win95. The problem I have is that I cant get rid of that stupid secondary menu even though I reclaimed the NT partition. Fdisk /MBR doesn't hack it. Any ideas? So, in short, yes it will work. >3. If am doing something wrong, How do I make FREEBSD co-exist with > NT Loader and add it as one of menu option for NT boot manager? I wouldn't trust that NT loader. Good luck. Eric Blood eblood@cs.unr.edu, http://www.cs.unr.edu/~eblood