Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:30:38 -0500 From: "Kemokai, Saffa" <SKemokai@ORA.FDA.GOV> To: "'Zaitsau, Andrei'" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com>, "Kemokai, Saffa" <SKemokai@ORA.FDA.GOV>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Mutlti-boot w/win2k professional Message-ID: <5FEEA401BBB3D311B71E0008C75D299D5E872C@orscrphiro02.ora.fda.gov>
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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
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