Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 19:08:30 +0200 From: dario.schiavon@fastwebnet.it To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Cannot get Boot Manager launch WinXPsp2 Message-ID: <41FFB1A90005077E@ms003msg.mail.fw>
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Hi! I've always been using MS Windows. Even if I've very little experience wi= th Unix-like systems, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3, because I want to learn it= and see if I can use it for some tasks. Since, in any case, I can't abandon Windows (which I'm so used to...), I installed the FreeBSD Boot Manager. After the installation process I'm no= t able to launch Windows any more. After the power-on self test, what I suppose to be the boot manager appea= rs: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 Default: F2 If I'm not making mistakes, F5 will look for a boot manager on the other hard disk (I have ad0 with both OSes, and ad1), so F1 should start Window= s. But I get this error message: Errore di lettura da disco Premere CTRL+ALT+CANC per riavviare which means: Disk read error Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot Which is likely to be Windows' loader complaining for something unknown t= o me. What did I mistake? How can I get both OSes to boot as expected? FreeBSD boots correctly, so I tried to make sysinstall reinstall the boot= manager, but it complains: ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0! Disk partition write returned an error status! Please help me! I need Windows working as soon as possible... Just one more question: I have an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, which has two ethernet devices. I got the Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet card s= uccessfully identified as sk0. Which module should I load to get the integrated MCP-T= NVIDIA MAC fast ethernet card (which should be part of the nForce2 chipse= t, I think) working? Thank you! -Dario
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