Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:39:33 -0600 From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> To: 'Nicholas Basila' <nbasila@epcot.revenio.com> Cc: "'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: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E841@exchange.panasonicfa.com>
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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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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