Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:45:25 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: lauwe@planet.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice" Message-ID: <200610220545.26095.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <453B2ECE.2040408@planet.nl> References: <453A45CE.3080301@planet.nl> <200610211453.23495.kbstew01@owt.com> <453B2ECE.2040408@planet.nl>
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On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:41, Laurens Timmermans wrote: > Kent Stewart schreef: > > Well "copy" will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have > > /a and /b to force one type or the other. > > > > Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I think a drag and drop does > > will also prefer to copy as binary. > > > > Kent > > I tried the following: > > "bsdlabel -B ad0s3" > according to the manual this should recreate boot1 and boot2 ? I made > a backup of boot1 but the above command does not recreate boot1. It > only does something with /boot/boot. So i restored the backup of > boot1, copied the first 512 bytes of /boot/boot to a usb-stick using > dd. I booted back into windows and used xcopy to copy the boot1-file > to my c:. > > But still i get "Invalid slice" The boot1 I use is created when you do the installworld and is /boot/boot1. When you are on the same HD as your Windows ntldr, that is all you need to use. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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