From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 17:14:40 2003 Return-Path: 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 AA3A837B401 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 17:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiba.meibin.net (shiba.meibin.net [219.166.101.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3462A43F85 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 17:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lukek@meibin.net) Received: (qmail 64725 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2003 00:14:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO yujo) (192.168.10.48) by shiba.meibin.net with SMTP; 1 Jun 2003 00:14:26 -0000 Message-ID: <001c01c327d2$70ad0af0$300aa8c0@yujo> From: "lukek" To: "FreeBSD" , "Jud" References: <007501c3271d$26c5fbf0$080aa8c0@yujo> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 09:12:08 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:14:41 -0000 thanks for the advice but neither GAG, Grub or FreeBSD bootloaders work for me it would appear that NTLDR has either been damaged or cannot be found. I could not get to that installation at all. It is a bit problematic as I usually only re-install once a year and don't (of course) have a recent backup that will suffice. I think I will need to install Win2K onto a different partition and see if I can mount the old Win2K partition to recover the data before doing the proper full swipe and reload. Cheers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jud" To: "lukek" ; "FreeBSD" Sent: 2003年6月1日 7:29 Subject: Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot > On Sat, 31 May 2003 11:34:25 +0900, lukek wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have done something pretty silly and not sure now how to recover. I > > installed 5.0 release on my desktop which was primarily a Win2k machine > > and > > now there is no option to dual boot. Well there is but when I choose the > > F1 > > ??? option instead of booting win2k is give me a message telling me that > > NTLDR cannot be found. > > > > Can anyone shed any light on a work around for this. I am truly stumped. > > > > Thanks > > > > LukeK > > Is Win2K on a different hard drive than FreeBSD? If so, then to use the > FreeBSD bootloader, you must install it on both drives. GAG, which has > been suggested, is a nice bootloader, and the FAQ on the FreeBSD web site > has some directions to boot both FreeBSD and Win using the NT/Win2K > bootloader. > > That's 3 options, should be enough to find a solution that works for you. > > Jud > >