From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 13:33:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B8537B424 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 13:33:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 870E4A876; Fri, 4 May 2001 15:32:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 15:32:46 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: TOad Stool Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: having unix and windows on differint hard drives Message-ID: <20010504153246.B19951@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010504185700.77658.qmail@web9306.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010504185700.77658.qmail@web9306.mail.yahoo.com>; from t0ad775@yahoo.com on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:57:00AM -0700 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:57:00AM -0700, TOad Stool wrote: > I need to know how to share freebsd and windows on > seperate disks. And still boot both seperatly. > > I have an i430 mother board, made 1995 > IDE interface > intel i386 > I don,t know if this info will help, but just being > safe. Windows has always handled this in typical Microsoft broken fashion. In order to boot Windows without special third-party software, you NEED to keep Windows on the first hard disk. Install the FreeBSD boot loader on the first disk; this will give you a menu from which you can choose Windows or FreeBSD. NT can boot from any disk, but it needs some files on the active primary MSDOS or NTFS filesystem on the first disk... This operating system might give you some trouble. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message