FreeBSD and WinNT

Eric Crist ecrist at secure-computing.net
Thu Jul 22 14:53:59 PDT 2004


On Monday 19 July 2004 09:27, 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've never installed FreeBSD _before_ Windows, but I have the other way 
around.  The FreeBSD boot loader will recognize the Windows partitions and 
setup correctly.  When I've done things the other way around, I have used 
Partition Magic, and Boot Magic to get things working.

>
> Thank You.

You're Welcome.

-- 
Eric F Crist

Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry, and the world WILL turn.


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