From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 21:12:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.aero.org (mail.aero.org [130.221.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB4B37B402 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:12:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by aero.org id <17123-4>; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:12:18 -0800 Received: from rushe.aero.org(130.221.201.83) via SMTP by mail.aero.org, id smtpdAAAa24008; Wed Feb 27 21:12:07 2002 Received: (from cal@localhost) by rushe.aero.org (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g1S5C3001443; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:12:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:12:03 -0800 From: Chris Landauer Message-Id: <200202280512.g1S5C3001443@rushe.aero.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dual boot with 4.5 and windows 2000 pro - is it possible? Cc: cal@rushe.aero.org 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 hihi, all - i am trying to put freebsd 4.5 on a large (80gb) disk, with a dual boot with windows 2000 professional (on the other 80gb disk, though i'd really prefer it to be on only a small part of that disk) i did all the right stuff with the CD (i've installed freebsd a few dozen times before), and tried to write the MBR (master boot record) properly from the freebsd install, but the machine always boots into windows - i wonder if w2000pro squirrels away a copy of the MBR and restores it before booting somehow, and even before shutting down - moreover, ALL of the disk partition fiddling programs failed because w2000pro said that disk fiddling was not allowed do any of the disk partition fiddling programs work on w2000pro (with a fat32 file system, NOT ntfs)? can i preserve windows at all? or must i make windows go away completely before my new machine will boot into freebsd? more later, cal Dr. Christopher Landauer Aerospace Integration Science Center The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M6/214 P.O.Box 92957 Los Angeles, California 90009-2957, USA cal@aero.org, +1 (310) 336-1361 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message