FreeBSD & NTFS

[yoyo25]

Does anyone know how to make a dual-boot NTFS and FreeBSD system. I installed FreeBSD, and could not boot back into my NTFS partition. I dont mind rebuilding the system because i have an image of my NT partition, so does anyone know the steps to getting this working? Thanks for any help.

 

[reicherb]

I believe lilo will recognize and boot a NTFS partition. Otherwise load some other boot manager such as boot magic which comes with partition magic.

 

[bex0rs]

Use the FBSD Boot manager. It will allow you to boot into any *primary* partition (doesn't matter what filesystem - ntfs - fat32 - ext2 -whatever). Back in my experimental days when I only had one computer to mess with, I'd create my Win98 and Win2k partitions as primaries with partition magic. Then I'd install FBSD and it's boot manager would handle all of the OS's on my computer without a problem.

My real suggestion though: Get more than one computer, even a pentium will run FBSD well enough for you to mess around with it. You'll learn much more if you don't have to reboot between OS's all the time.

~bex0rs

 

[BigDady92]

make sure when you allocated your slices for MS and partitions for FreeBSD make sure that you didn't overwrite them.

Also check to make sure that your boot manager was installed by freebsd and that it will recognize both slice and partitions.

 

[yoyo25]

Thanks for the suggestions, I will try them out this weekend. This is actually for my laptop computer, so I can have best of both worlds on the go!