From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 0: 3: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8073437B419 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 00:03:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA19188; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 00:02:56 -0800 Message-ID: <3C34102E.3060009@owt.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 00:02:54 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Denis J. Cirulis" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual boot References: <1010042529.3325.12.camel@blowfish.dev.mt.lv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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