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Win2k/FreeBSD Dual Boot Problems

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TimeThrash

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Please please PLEASE somebody help me. I just put Win2k on my machine again last night after BLITZING the MBR, which FreeBSD told me would not happen. The way they have their boot-loader setup you select the drive that will not be using FreeBSD but you don't select any components to install on it, and the FreeBSD installer gets the Boot Loader thing put on there. Ok so that didn't work right. I tried that after using MSTBoot, which looked like a decent program, and the boot loader showed up, but my Win2k drive had become completely unreadable (it only knew it was a FAT drive, nothing else). Could somebody please give me a short walk-through on how to install FreeBSD's boot loader (or any working boot loader) properly on a dual-boot????????

BTW, dual-drive dual boot setup, not one drive. I would never get this thing going with only one drive.

Oh, damn, also I wanted to ask how do you load KDE or another kind of desktop environment once you're at the console as root??
Tt
 
The answer to the second question might be 'startx'.

For the first question, did you try repairing the MBR with the Win2K CD (just boot the CD and there are repair options ... somewhere 😛)? Let me know if that works, as there *may* be a way to still get into FreeBSD with 'bootpart'.

-SUO
 
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