Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:07:40 -0500 From: "Kemokai, Saffa" <SKemokai@ORA.FDA.GOV> To: 'Rob' <europax@home.com>, "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> Cc: 'Nicholas Basila' <nbasila@epcot.revenio.com>, "Kemokai, Saffa" <SKemokai@ORA.FDA.GOV>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FW: Mutlti-boot w/win2k professional Message-ID: <5FEEA401BBB3D311B71E0008C75D299D5E873A@orscrphiro02.ora.fda.gov>
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Thanks everybody for responses made to this question. They were all very helpful in providing pointers to things not so obvious. Based on different experiences from the responses I read, I installed FreeBSD4.2 in apartition on another machine already running W2K. What is the difference in my case is that the first machine has 2 drives and each OS was installed on separate drive with BSD on the 2nd drive. Somehow on this machine, I get no Boot Option but rather it boots direct into W2k. Now on the machine where I have both OSes on the same drive but different partions, BSD boot manager loads fine and I can load from either of the OSes. I would however love to use the 2 drives machine ..:) <Saffa> > -----Original Message----- From: Rob [mailto:europax@home.com] Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 10:42 PM To: Zaitsau, Andrei Cc: 'Nicholas Basila'; 'SKemokai@ORA.FDA.GOV'; 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG' Subject: Re: FW: Mutlti-boot w/win2k professional (Sorry for my late response, @home was borked yesterday) My laptop has Win2K as NTFS on partition 1, and FreeBSD 4.2 Release as partition 2 on the same hard drive. Win2K was installed first, then later FreeBSD. Partition 2 is marked active. I selected the bootmanager option in install. The dual boot works perfectly. Good luck. Rob. "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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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