From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 14:30:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8900616A41F for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:30:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kwieland@wustl.edu) Received: from ascc.artsci.wustl.edu (ascc.artsci.wustl.edu [128.252.93.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357C143D46 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:30:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kwieland@wustl.edu) Received: from [128.252.125.191] (solin2.wustl.edu [128.252.125.191]) (authenticated bits=0) by ascc.artsci.wustl.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8LEUTfw025600 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:30:29 -0500 (CDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <2cdb8d1853d56424121c721237176f90@wustl.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: K Wieland Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:29:20 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: Dual boot solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:30:30 -0000 All, I have a dual boot setup with windows 2000 and freebsd 5.4 (amd64). Everything was set up using ntldr to dual boot so I could "learn" freebsd meanwhile my wife could still use the computer. I recently wiped 5.4 and installed 6.0B4 and in the setup chose not to load any boot managers (NONE). I finished installing, everything working fine. Until I rebooted. Freebsd booted! So, after googling (lots of misinformation) and trying many things, I thought I would post here to save some poor soul a repeat of the week I have had. First, this is what worked: Boot into freebsd and changing the active partition back to the windows partition (if it is /dev/ad0) ala fdisk /dev/ad0 -a yes 1 (vs 2, the freebsd partition) yes reboot! What didn't work: 1. using sysinstall in freebsd to set the partition as active. For some reason this gave an error. 2. windows recovery CD, fixmdr, fixboot, fdisk /mbr, repair installation of windows 2000 (screwed up windows big time, btw!) Apparently if you do not choose an active partition in sysinstall, it defaults to the freebsd partition. Even if you choose not to alter the MBR. I didn't have an error of ntdlr not found, it was just booting into freebsd right off the bat. Also, some people solve this problem by reinstalling windows, which I am sure when you do this, it sets the install partition to be the active partition. If anyone could add to this I would be interested. Thanks, Kristopher