Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:25:51 -0500 (EST) From: Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> To: Timm Rebitzki <trebitzki@compuserve.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows 2000 & FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20021224000859.S5422-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20021223001103.GG17582@gothmog.gr>
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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 .. I ended up just installing the FreeBSD boot loader (booteasy). I was really hesitant at first because I was not sure if booteasy would be able to boot Win2k and I could not find anyone who gave detailed information about their setup. After just going ahead and installing booteasy anyways, I saw that Win2k's loader is not stored in the MBR and instead it will "co-exist" (it's stored on the Win2k partition) with booteasy. Basically, install Win2k, install FreeBSD and the boot manager, and then you're done. Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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