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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.rns.net!flint.sentex.net!usenet From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot manager and Windows NT disk manager Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 01:16:17 -0500 Organization: RingZero Computing Lines: 47 Message-ID: <32A27431.41C67EA6@quickweb.com> References: <57e759$a0e@gwdu19.gwdg.de> <329B9EEE.5189@OntheNet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: p3.radium.sentex.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Tony Griffiths wrote: > = > Stefan Witzel wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 and Windows NT 3.51 on my hard disk and = use > > the FreeBSD boot manager. When I call the NT disk manager it tells me= > > that it wants to write a signature to the disk. Does this overwrites = the > > boot manager? > > > I've been told that writing an NT "signature" on a Unix partition will > trash it, so don't do it!!! > = No it doesn't. At least it didn't with NT workstation 4.0. I'm pretty sure I did this in 3.51 as well with no problems. -mark Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > Stefan Witzel switzel@uni-goettingen= =2Ede > > Universitaet Goettingen / Stabsstelle DV ----------------------= --- > > Gosslerstrasse 5-7 fon: +49 551 394160 > > 37073 Goettingen fax: +49 551 399612 > > Germany ----------------------= --- > = > Tony -- = =FBA