From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 25 13:46:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A64916A4CE; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:46:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from congo.princess.dyns.cx (cpc1-cmbg6-6-0-cust54.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [81.104.213.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B21B243D48; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:46:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@howes-macnaghten.com) Received: by congo.princess.dyns.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C42CDC13C; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:46:30 +0100 (BST) From: Steve Hodgson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:46:30 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <9F67035A-48C9-11D7-8C19-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> <1046192310.3e5ba0b6aa039@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1046192310.3e5ba0b6aa039@sms.ed.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409251446.30563.steve@howes-macnaghten.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:32:32 +0000 cc: Andrew Boothman cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: dwbear75@gmail.com cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:46:35 -0000 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 16:58, Andrew Boothman wrote: > Quoting Lucas Holt : > > It probably is. You need to put in the win 2k CD and do a repair on > > your windows install.. unfortunetely this may screw up your freebsd > > install. > > > > On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 05:58 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I've just installed 5-RELEASE, and I asked for the FreeBSD Boot > > > Manager to be installed on both my HDDs. > > > > > > When the machine boots I'm given options for : > > > > > > F1 - DOS > > > F5 - Drive 2 > > > > > > Hitting F5 takes me to a second menu, where I can boot FreeBSD no > > > problem. My problem is that Win2k will no longer boot.... Hitting F1 > > > displays a message that, "NTLDR is missing". I've tried all the repair > > > > > > options on the Win2k setup disc to no avail I think. > > > > > > I'm sorry this isn't directly FreeBSD related, but I really hope my > > > Win2k installation isn't hosed. > > Thanks for replying! > > I can't understand how the 5.x boot manager has managed to break my windows > boot, i've never had any trouble under 3.x or 4.x, both of which played > with windows perfectly nicely. > > I think i've tried all of the various repair options on the Win2k CD, > including getting it to do a fresh installation into a different folder > (c:\tempwin), but even that failed with the "NTLDR missing" message! > However you no longer get the booteasy (F1.... F2) menu anymore, so Windows > must have rewritten something. It still doesn't explain why Win2k still > won't boot. > > I'm running out of ideas and I *really* don't want to have to reformat my > windows drive! > > Other than this (fairly major) problem, my 5.0 installation went really > well, even ACPI seems to be working perfectly and I even found a KLD to > support my on- board sound card! :) > > I really want to get windows booting again so I can continue to play with > 5.0 without worrying... > > Any help is much appricated! > It could well be that windows has become confused about the partition numbering. the important file is c:\boot.ini. It will have a line like... multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows" /fastdetect I can't recall what all the numbers mean and IIRC documentation is slightly scant, but try changing the numbers, in particular the partition() part and see if that helps. Since you can't boot windows its not obvious how to edit the file, recovery console or knoppix are the two methods i would try. Steve