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Date:      Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:55:58 -0500
From:      Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm>
To:        Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca>, Timm Rebitzki <trebitzki@compuserve.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: windows 2000 & FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <oprhw2jkqr0cf2rk@fastmail.fm>
In-Reply-To: <20021224000859.S5422-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org>
References:  <20021224000859.S5422-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org>

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On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:25:51 -0500 (EST), Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> 
wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
>> Yes, of course.  You can even use the Windows 2000 boot menu to boot
>> your FreeBSD installation.  I've done it recently, and it works fine :)
>>
>
> FYI, I tried booting FreeBSD from the Win2k loader and it wouldn't work.
> The machine would just reboot when I tried to load FreeBSD, but Windows
> loaded properly.  My HD is 80 gigs, with the first 40 gigs for Win2k and
> the other 40 for FreeBSD.  Maybe the Win2k boot loader won't load your OS
> if the partition starts before the 1024th cylinder?  Just speculating ..

Glad it worked for you.  Just so we don't get any "urban legends" started, 
the 1024th cylinder is irrelevant for FBSD and Win2K if you are using any 
BIOS from the last 5-6 years (one that knows about LBA addressing).

-- 
Jud

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