From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 1 10:49:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (sat.dis.org [216.240.44.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB9D37B406 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:49:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f71HpdJ01717; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108011751.f71HpdJ01717@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: oldcpgmr@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and windows 98 don't play well together In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:06:40 EDT." <7FF44286.641420F8.00A40C08@netscape.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:51:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I was wondering whether someone could shed some light on this for me: I've i > nstalled FreeBSD 4.3, Debian Linux 2.2r2 and windows 98 on my laptop. Everyt > hing is fine except that after using FreeBSD if I try to go into windows, the > system locks up. If I turn the power off and back on after attempting to bo > ot windows once, it works fine. I realize several things: > 1) The 4 gigs occupied by windows would make a dandy filesystem for BSD > (but I need windows for work). > 2) The computer may be recoiling at the prospect of going from an OS > which is a Good Thing to one that is the quintissential Bad Thing. > 3) It isn't FreeBSD's job to make M$ products work. > Any ideas? Windows/BIOS bug; some of your hardware isn't being reset correctly. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message