From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 1 20: 9:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED6037B429 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 20:09:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Lcit-0003XA-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 04:09:51 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id B263F1174; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 05:09:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 05:09:49 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows Message-ID: <20020102040949.GA988@raggedclown.net> References: <20020101175455.5bf12986.scottro@nyc.rr.com> <002a01c1933c$9aa8d040$1151a8c0@Jaideep> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002a01c1933c$9aa8d040$1151a8c0@Jaideep> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:51:44AM +0530, Jaideep Bhatia wrote: > I have machine with win 2K and freebsd with the default freebsd boot > loader ( I think easy boot) and it is working fine. Machine has 2 > primary partitions one for win 2k and other from freebsd 4.4 R. But the > partitioning was done before win2k was installed. And then on other > partition freebsd was installed. > Only minor problem is that boot loader gives the following > message > F1 ??? (This is the NTFS partition) > F2 FreebSD > > It can't recognize the ntfs pratition, but pressing F1 boots > win2k without any problems. It just means it does not recognise the NTFS signature. Works the other way around as well. Win2K will probably describe your FBSD partitions as being of type unknown. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message