From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 4 18:42:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28F716A4E2 for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:42:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms001msg.fastwebnet.it (ms001msg.fastwebnet.it [213.140.2.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 103ED43D5D for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:42:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dario.schiavon@fastwebnet.it) Received: from [29.244.81.182] (29.244.81.182) by ms001msg.fastwebnet.it (7.2.052.3) id 4235CA07003F2393; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 20:42:09 +0200 Message-ID: <86387705.5040203@fastwebnet.it> From: Dario User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: it, it-it, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pablo Mora References: <41FFB1A90005077E@ms003msg.mail.fw> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot get Boot Manager launch WinXPsp2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:42:14 -0000 X-Original-Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1905 19:42:12 +0100 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:42:14 -0000 Windows' NTFS partition was unrecoverable: even reinstalling MS's MBR and boot sector I still had errors (regarding filesystem corruption...). I've solved the problem by reinstalling Windows, and then configuring Windows' own booter to launch FreeBSD when requested, as described somewhere in the Internet. I think that's the easiest and safest way to dual-boot Windows and FreeBSD, at least for beginners like me. I wish I had found some mention in the installation guide... I had no time to try GAG, but thanks for helping anyway! :) -Dario Pablo Mora: >Test with GAG. >http://gag.sourceforge.net/ > Original message: >> Hi! >> >> I've always been using MS Windows. Even if I've very little experience with >> Unix-like systems, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3, because I want to learn it >> and see if I can use it for some tasks. >> >> Since, in any case, I can't abandon Windows (which I'm so used to...), I >> installed the FreeBSD Boot Manager. After the installation process I'm not >> able to launch Windows any more. >> >> After the power-on self test, what I suppose to be the boot manager appears: >> F1 ?? >> F2 FreeBSD >> F5 Drive 1 >> Default: F2 >> >> If I'm not making mistakes, F5 will look for a boot manager on the other >> hard disk (I have ad0 with both OSes, and ad1), so F1 should start Windows. >> But I get this error message: >> Errore di lettura da disco >> Premere CTRL+ALT+CANC per riavviare >> which means: >> Disk read error >> Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot >> Which is likely to be Windows' loader complaining for something unknown to >> me. >> >> What did I mistake? How can I get both OSes to boot as expected? >> FreeBSD boots correctly, so I tried to make sysinstall reinstall the boot >> manager, but it complains: >> ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0! >> Disk partition write returned an error status! >> >> Please help me! I need Windows working as soon as possible... >> >> Just one more question: I have an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, which >> has two ethernet devices. I got the Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet card successfully >> identified as sk0. Which module should I load to get the integrated MCP-T >> NVIDIA MAC fast ethernet card (which should be part of the nForce2 chipset, >> I think) working? >> >> Thank you! >> -Dario