Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 22:36:27 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: Steven Alexander <steve@cell2000.net>, Steve Hill <sjhill@cotw.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating a system to boot 4 different OS types. Message-ID: <3933292B.28F51856@home.com> References: <000e01bfc92c$8cc26f80$0100007f@localhost.cell2000.net> <3933155E.F6346F9D@bellatlantic.net>
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Sergey Babkin wrote: > > Steven Alexander wrote: > > > > I've had problems getting Windows NT to boot using bootloaders from other > > OSes. I'd suggest installing NT last and putting it on the first partition. > > The partition number does not really matter, what really matters is > that Windows wants to be in the very first tracks of the disk. This > is legacy left from DOS which always had the same mania. While this may have once been true, I don't believe it holds for modern versions of Windows. That is, at least for Win98 and Win2000. Whether the kluge known as Windows NT (4) still has that requirement I don't know. In any event, unless you have a specific requirement to use the old Windows NT4, I'd wouldn't touch it with the proverbial 10-foot pole. I'd use Windows 2000 instead if I needed "NT" compatibility. > NT (as well as 95/98) silently overwrites the master boot record. Quite true, so be prepared to restore it. I was surprised, however, when an install of the final release of Windows 2000 did NOT overwrite my master boot record (MBR). After the install I still had LILO in the MBR, so I could still boot FreeBSD and Linux... Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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