From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 9:22:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D2A37B401; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from kestrel.alerce.com (kestrel.alerce.com [209.182.219.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D767143FA3; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (bios-2101-104.LIPS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.96.42]) by kestrel.alerce.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h1QHLrk6073207 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:21:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) X-Authentication-Warning: kestrel.alerce.com: Host bios-2101-104.LIPS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.96.42] claimed to be rosebud.alerce.com Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (rosebud.alerce.com [127.0.0.1]) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1QHM1fb050922 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:22:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) Received: (from hartzell@localhost) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.7/8.12.6/Submit) id h1QHM0PY050919; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:22:00 -0800 (PST) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15964.63416.595988.941311@rosebud.alerce.com> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:22:00 -0800 To: Andrew Boothman Cc: George Hartzell , Matt Smith , Lucas Holt , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install In-Reply-To: <3E5C9FD4.4050704@sms.ed.ac.uk> References: <9F67035A-48C9-11D7-8C19-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> <1046192310.3e5ba0b6aa039@sms.ed.ac.uk> <1046193245.97029.12.camel@d80h149.public.uconn.edu> <1046216562.3e5bff7214b3b@sms.ed.ac.uk> <15964.882.143402.926923@rosebud.alerce.com> <3E5C9FD4.4050704@sms.ed.ac.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Boothman writes: > [...] > It's possible I guess that we both suffered from the same problem. I'd > be inclined to think that it must be operator error over something wrong > with sysinstall since I've not seen people complaining of these problems > before, yet there must be loads of people dual-booting. Having said > that, I still can't understand what I did differently or how to prevent > the same thing from happening in the future. > > I guess I'll just use GRUB or something instead. > > Looks like my Windows drive is heading for a reformat.... :-/ I'm pretty sure that it's not operator error on my part, since it happened several times. I suspect that there aren't that many people playing with 5.0 that don't install the standard boot stuff, and so that path isn't exercised too much. It happened repeatedly for me, and one of the things that's on my list of things to do is to recreate it and file a PR, but it hasn't risen to the top of the queue yet. It's a bit problematic because I don't really want to loose the contents of that drive (it takes *forever* to get windows and office updated after the intial installs: reboot, reboot, reboot...) and it's not hard to imagine that whatever's bitten me the past few times might get me irrecoverably the next time... GRUB is cool. Backup's of your partition/slice/disklabel info are extra cool. g. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message