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From: Petr Kodl <pecold@rockwell.cz>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Making Windows NT & FreeBSD Cohabit
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:06:39 +0000
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To: Christoff Snijders <hjcs@portal.ca>

Christoff Snijders wrote:
> The FreeBSD boot manager remained completely
> unaffected, and Windows NT installed its boot
> manager underneath it--when you press F1 for DOS,
> you get the NT boot manager, from which you can
> choose whether you want to boot normally or in VGA
> mode.
> 
> I didn't convert the file system to NTFS, because I
> was concerned that this would prevent me from
> booting FreeBSD ever again.  Anyone know for sure?

You can convert to NTFS, FreeBSD will not be touched by that,
but if you have your dos partition mounted under FreeBSD, it will
not be visible anymore (at least under 2.0.5 I'm running). 
So remove the partition from /etc/fstab before fs conversion. 

Even if you don't change you fstab FreeBSD will boot, but in 
"recovery" single-user mode just with root fs mounted as read-only. 
It's little bit more tricky to edit your fstab without your favorite
editor. 

pecold