Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 14:41:44 -0500 From: Nicholas Basila <nbasila@epcot.revenio.com> To: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.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: <3A54D1F8.B8360DAF@epcot.revenio.com> References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E841@exchange.panasonicfa.com>
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No, you actually have to add it to boot.ini and copy the first 512 bytes to a file in the c: drive or it won't see it (it's such a great boot manager, isn't it?) "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 > > > > > > 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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