From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 21 18:35:18 2006 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 495A916A417 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:35:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F0343D5F for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:35:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9LIZEpE004833; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:35:15 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, lauwe@planet.nl Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:35:16 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <453A45CE.3080301@planet.nl> <200610211048.55010.kstewart@owt.com> <453A64B4.4000504@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <453A64B4.4000504@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610211135.16683.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice" 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: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:35:18 -0000 On Saturday 21 October 2006 11:19, Laurens Timmermans wrote: > Kent Stewart schreef: > > 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 > > My boot.ini looks like this: > > [boot loader] > timeout=5 > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS > [operating systems] > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP > Professinal" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect > c:\boot1="FreeBSD" > The only difference is I called it bootsect.bsd to make it look like everything else. Could you have somehow copied it badly. I always have a machine running and did a binary ftp to the local machine and then renamed to to the *.bsd. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html