Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:48:54 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, lauwe@planet.nl Subject: Re: Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice" Message-ID: <200610211048.55010.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <453A45CE.3080301@planet.nl> References: <453A45CE.3080301@planet.nl>
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On Saturday 21 October 2006 09:07, Laurens Timmermans wrote: > Hi, > > > I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD and > Windows XP. I have tried this before using NTLOADER on my desktop-pc > (by following the directions in the faq) and it works like a charm, > but not on my laptop... > I installed FreeBSD, copied /boot/boot1 to a usb-stick, set my > windows-slice active and added a freebsd-entry to my boot.ini. > When i boot i get the ntloader-menu, it boots xp just fine but when i > choose FreeBSD i get "invalid slice". I can get back into my > freebsd-install by setting it's slice active again (using > boot/rescue-cd). I am using FreeBSD 6.2-beta2 (because of support for > my pentium M). My disk looks as following: > > -ad0s1 = dell recovery-partition > -ad0s2 = NTFS (windows xp) > -ad0s3 = FreeBSD > > from fstab: > +ad0s3b = swap > +ad0s3a = / > +ad0s3e = /tmp > +ad0s3f = /usr > +ad0s3d = /var > > How can i get this to work using ntloader ? > That is very similar to what I am using right now on this computer and 3 others. What does your boot.ini look like. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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