Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 00:02:54 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Denis J. Cirulis" <denis@mt.lv> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual boot Message-ID: <3C34102E.3060009@owt.com> References: <1010042529.3325.12.camel@blowfish.dev.mt.lv>
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Denis J. Cirulis wrote: > Hi there! > > I installed freebsd 4.4 on my laptop. I had no place to backup all my > files from this brand new fujitsu so I installed fbsd as a second OS. > Now I can boot freebsd and do all my tasks but i can't boot windows now. > ntoskernel file is missing. It seems to me that this is a boot loader > issue. > > I'm running win2k and freebsd. What can be a problem ? What did you do? I have 4 machines dual booting W2K and FreeBSD. You have to leave the mbr alone or install FreeBSD's boot manager. I install Windows many times but but FreeBSD infrequently. There wasn't any point on my end to not use the ntldr. > > P.S: I'm starting thinking to put grub onto freebsd, could this help ? > It doesn't matter which one you use as long as you understand what you are doing. Every software product has a +/- side to it and you should use the one that interferes the least. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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