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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:58:05 -0600 
From:      "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com>
To:        'Nicholas Basila' <nbasila@epcot.revenio.com>, "'SKemokai@ORA.FDA.GOV'" <SKemokai@ORA.FDA.GOV>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: FW: Mutlti-boot w/win2k professional
Message-ID:  <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E839@exchange.panasonicfa.com>

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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
>
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