From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 6 22:41:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC0D16A4BF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 22:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037A443FD7 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 22:41:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56BA41964DC; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 01:41:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Sun, 07 Sep 2003 01:41:28 -0400 X-Epoch: 1062913288 X-Sasl-enc: 3guJ2DnswB7kWfuMBcPPzQ Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.72.7.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.72.7]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id A24D31968AA; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 01:41:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 01:41:32 -0400 To: paul beard , questions@freebsd.org, Brett Glass References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030906215542.028ddc60@localhost> <3F5AB23B.90809@mac.com> From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3F5AB23B.90809@mac.com> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3082 Subject: Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 05:41:32 -0000 On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 21:21:15 -0700, paul beard wrote: > Brett Glass wrote: >> I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.8 on a system which will boot it >> and also Windows 2000 Server. I've done this with two multiboot >> utilities: the simple boot manager that comes with FreeBSD and V >> Communications' System Commander. >> >> In both cases, I have found that when I install FreeBSD it corrupts >> neighboring NTFS and FAT partitions. After the install, the OSes in >> these partitions fail to boot or the partitions become entirely >> unreadable. Whether I tell FreeBSD not to install an MBR or whether I >> tell it to install its boot manager, the result is the same: >> Neighboring partitions are being corrupted to the point where one can >> not get to data on them. >> >> I realize that dual booting is not common, but I need to do it on this >> laptop. Has anyone else on the lists encountered this problem? > > I have dual-booted this laptop (an IBM A20p) with Win2K and a succession > of Linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. Other than the annoying problem of a > couple years back when IBM chose to label its hibernation slice with the > same ID as FreeBSD uses, thereby rendering FreeBSD unusable, it's worked > just fine. > > Sounds to me like the partitions are overlapping or otherwise not being > kept away from each other, but its hard to know for sure without any > information off the system. I've had many different multi-boot configurations involving FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x versions, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Linux, and QNX on various hard drives. Currently FreeBSD and Windows 2000 share a RAID-0 array, while Gentoo Linux and Windows 98 reside on a third disk. Though I'm not particularly tech-savvy, I have never had a single problem with FreeBSD or Linux "corrupting" a Windows install. I guess without more information, we can't be certain that anything is corrupted; if it is, that FreeBSD is doing the corrupting; or how whatever is wrong might be fixed. Please send more info. Jud