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[Edward Shabotinsky]

Cecil,
sorry, what is your question?
if you have win2k recognize freebsd ( can u boot it ?), after all you  
can use win2k boot loader for fbsd booting process
but in that case you MUST NOT to override mbr with fbsd installation  
process.

Good luck :-)



On Feb 16, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Cecil wrote:

> Thanks for all the comments but I must not be doing something  
> right! Here's outline of the install process.
>
> 1. Partition a single 40GB harddrive using FDISK and make the  
> FreeBSD partition Active
> 2. Set the second partition as DOS fat ->> install Win2K in the Dos  
> partition ->> then doing the install I think it formats the DOS  
> partition to fat32 and overwrites the MBR for FreeBSD
> 3. The Win2K come up without giving a choice of OS to boot into ->>  
> copy boot0 from the FreeBSD disk onto the Win2K C:\bootFBSD and  
> modify the B boot.ini file ->> I reboot and there is recgnized OS  
> to be found
>
> and I have followed these step after that
>
>
> FreeBSD offers a simple boot manager that is placed in the first  
> sector
> of your hard disk. It is called boot0. You can install easily:
>
> - boot FreeBSD
> - allow to write the first sector:
> sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
> - install the boot manager
> boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0
> - reboot
>
> Now I am still unable to choose between the operating systems.
>
> You can also boot from the FreeBSD CD (disc1) and choose "Fixit" ->
> "CD/CDROM". In this case you can skip the second step.
>
> I not getting something right even with book in hand.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
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