From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 9:11:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pemaquid.safeport.com (pemaquid.safeport.com [204.156.12.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B4E37B403 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 09:10:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by pemaquid.safeport.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4OGAma85585; Fri, 24 May 2002 12:10:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:10:47 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Jud Cc: Darryl Hoar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi Boot question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thanks for the information and for correcting my misunderstanding. On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jud wrote: > Doug, go ahead and convert to NTFS if you like - it's a much better > filesystem than FAT. :-) > > I think you may have gotten a misimpression from some complaints that > the boot list for BootEasy, FreeBSD's boot manager, shows an NTFS > filesystem as "???." It'll boot NTFS just fine. It's just that the numerical > ID for the NTFS filesystem (7), is the same as the numerical ID for > OS/2's HPFS (and QNX as well, IIRC). Therefore BootEasy can't give it > a name, so it shows up as "???." > > Grub and the NT bootloader will also boot both FreeBSD and NTFS. > You can configure either one rather easily to display the names you > want in the boot list. > > The FAQ on the FreeBSD web site has instructions for configuring the > NT bootloader to boot NT and FreeBSD. Booting FreeBSD from the > same disk is easier than booting it from a different disk. There may be > other reasons to pair FreeBSD with one of the Win OSs and Linux with > the other, rather than putting both Wins on the same disk. For instance, > dual booting both Wins from a single disk in the fashion recommended > by Microsoft puts Win2K in an extended partition whether you prefer it > that way or not. > > Jud _____ Douglas Denault doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message