From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 09:58:39 2004 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 6735716A4CE for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:58:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268C543D1F for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:58:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from server2.messagingengine.com (server2.internal [10.202.2.133]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207B86542BB; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:58:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 65DC285AEC; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:58:37 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Jud" To: "Mark Weisman" , "Jerry McAllister" Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:58:37 -0500 X-Sasl-Enc: jQa/gIozrfc1aQCKp4iUNw 1077904717 Message-Id: <1077904717.30554.181772392@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <88EB08D16800D34EA145D7DD2AA44998E655@minnie.outland> In-Reply-To: <88EB08D16800D34EA145D7DD2AA44998E655@minnie.outland> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Boot and MBR. 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: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:58:39 -0000 On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:06:43 -0900, "Mark Weisman" said: > I've installed GAG, and that is a really easy setup! It identified all > the partitions, and what was in them, stepped me through the process of > copying the manager to the disk and everything, kudos for the > recommendation! When I select to boot to the WindowsXP partition, it > come to a black screen with red squares in a diagonal line across the > screen, not sure but it doesn't look good. Have to hit reset on the box > to get out, the three finger salute doesn't work. I see the cursor > blinking in the upper left corner, yet no operating system. Any ideas? First, post. top don't Please Makes things harder to read in sequence. :) Second, you need to fix your WinXP installation. Boot from the WinXP CD and select to repair your installation. Try the automatic repair first. If that doesn't work, select the repair console and use the 'fixboot' and 'fixmbr' commands. If those don't work, boot from a Win9x emergency/system floppy and use fdisk's 'fdisk /mbr' command. Then reinstall the FreeBSD MBR. If you want to continue to use GAG, select the 'normal' MBR for FreeBSD rather than the FreeBSD bootloader. Finally, you will have to redo your GAG configuration, or if your system doesn't boot into GAG, reinstall it. Jud