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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!bmerhc5e.bnr.ca!bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!bmdhh222.bnr.ca!tsbarry From: tsbarry@bnr.ca (Barry Scott) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Windows NT and FreeBSD Date: 16 Oct 1995 16:38:13 GMT Organization: Bell Northern Research Lines: 43 Message-ID: <45u1pl$rmj@bmdhh222.bnr.ca> References: <DGI48B.A73@gateway.dcc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmdhh3ff.bnr.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Steve Moubray (smoubray@dcc.com) wrote: : I need to run MS-DOS, Windows NT and FreeBSD on one 4G SCSI drive. : What is the easiest way to get FreeBSD and Windows NT to co-exist? I : installed FreeBSD after Windows NT and even though I selected to leave : the boot record intact, FreeBSD ate it up and I could no longer run : NT. Luckily I made a backup. : When I load one of the operating systems I'm there for a few hours so : I don't really need a quick way to go from one OS to another. I just : need a way that is simple with little risk of problems. : TIA BTEASY has a problem with Windows NT. It uses a few bytes too many of the MBR. I am developing patches - mail me for an updated BTEASY. The symptoms are that Windows NT will report that there no signature on the disk and ask you for permission to write the signature. That write will remove BTEASY. Further if you have changed the driver letter of you Windows NT boot partition that driver letter assignment will be lost. You will need to arrange that FreeBSD is completely within the 1st 1024 cylinders on the disk. If not it will not be bootable. The BTEasy code cannot load the bootblock if any of the partition is above 1024 cylinders. Try this layout of the disk: MSDOS partition FreeBSD partition < end below 1024 cylinders MSDOS logical partitions NTFS partition I currently have MSDOS 6.2 with Windows 3.11 Windows 95 Windows NT 3.51 FreeBSD 2.0.5R Split over a pair of 1G drives. BArry