From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 19 19:45:29 2004 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 8F3EF16A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:45:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2711943D46 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:45:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F2469A3F; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:45:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:45:26 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Fractal Message-Id: <20040719154526.4003fbf2.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and WinNT 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: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:45:29 -0000 Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Fractal wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 4.8 and I need to install on the same machine > WindowsNT-like operating system. I tried to do this and installed it. But > after recovering of BSD bootstrap loader using sysinstall I found that I > cannot load Windows. Namely, there was two question signs ('??') in the > second string of BSD loader menu (the first was 'FreeBSD') and after > selecting it by F3 my computer rebooted. Windows should run on NTFS > partition, not FAT. Can I do something and if yes, what? I'm not sure I understand exactly what went wrong, but (in my experience) things go much better if you install Windows first, then FreeBSD. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com