Hi guys,
I know it seems somehow a strange issue, but here is what happened.
Yesterday I partitioned my laptop's hard disk (320GB) using windows disk manager to 2 primary partitions, 1x50GB for windows xp which was already there, and 1x40GB for FreeBSD slice, and the rest as an extended partition. I rebooted couple of times, then started FreeBSD installation process.
In the partitioning, I choose FreeBSD slice, and partitioned it, but when i was asked to choose the boot loader between Boot Manager, MBR and none, I choose to install Boot Manager, as i want my boot loader to be FreeBSD's loader, and the rest of the installation continued with no issues.
When i rebooted after the installation finished, I was prompted F1 for windows and F2 for FreeBSD, I wanted to check on my windows system, so I pressed F1, and Windows loaded correctly, until certain point and it hangs (it hangs at the windows xp logo with the blue background). But the good thing which i am glad it went alright that FreeBSD started without any issues.
Booting into FreeBSD and mounting my NTFS paritions, and they were intacted and nothing was missing, everything on those partitions was fine.
My question is, does FreeBSD change the windows partitions by any mean so that such an issue happens? I would be very glad if someone would help me.
Thanks a Lot in advance
I know it seems somehow a strange issue, but here is what happened.
Yesterday I partitioned my laptop's hard disk (320GB) using windows disk manager to 2 primary partitions, 1x50GB for windows xp which was already there, and 1x40GB for FreeBSD slice, and the rest as an extended partition. I rebooted couple of times, then started FreeBSD installation process.
In the partitioning, I choose FreeBSD slice, and partitioned it, but when i was asked to choose the boot loader between Boot Manager, MBR and none, I choose to install Boot Manager, as i want my boot loader to be FreeBSD's loader, and the rest of the installation continued with no issues.
When i rebooted after the installation finished, I was prompted F1 for windows and F2 for FreeBSD, I wanted to check on my windows system, so I pressed F1, and Windows loaded correctly, until certain point and it hangs (it hangs at the windows xp logo with the blue background). But the good thing which i am glad it went alright that FreeBSD started without any issues.
Booting into FreeBSD and mounting my NTFS paritions, and they were intacted and nothing was missing, everything on those partitions was fine.
My question is, does FreeBSD change the windows partitions by any mean so that such an issue happens? I would be very glad if someone would help me.
Thanks a Lot in advance