From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 2:39:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0615237B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:39:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from j4.kch19.jaring.my (HELO acidic) (161.142.45.18) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2001 09:39:45 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:48:32 +0800 From: Alvin Sim X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alvin Sim Organization: n/a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1709203433.20010712174832@yahoo.co.uk> To: Jason Litz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual boot problem with win2000 In-Reply-To: <000001c10a9c$f8548870$0100a8c0@jasonlitz> References: <000001c10a9c$f8548870$0100a8c0@jasonlitz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have a similar setup but am using win2k's bootloader to boot freebsd. assuming freebsd is on 2nd primary partition, try this:- 1. boot into freebsd 2. su to root 3. dd if=/dev/rad0s2a of=/dev/fd0/freebsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 4. restart to win2k 5. copy a:\freebsd.pbr to c:\ 6. edit boot.ini (remove hidden & read attrib) and add to last line as follows:- C:\freebsd.pbr="FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE" HTH Thursday, July 12, 2001, 02:35:19 PM, Jason Litz wrote: JL> Hi, JL> I had Win2000 already installed and working. I installed FreeBSD 4.3 with JL> the Boot Easy boot manager and now FreeBSD will boot fine but Win2000 blue JL> screens on me. My research has led me to believe that Boot Easy does not JL> support the NTFS file system which I am using on all my Microsoft "slices". JL> I can't seem to find any doc on removing the current boot manager or what JL> boot manager to use next. I am still looking but if anyone can point me in JL> the right direction I would appreciate it. JL> Thanks, JL> Jason JL> jlitz@mindspring.com JL> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org JL> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Alvin bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message