Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:42:04 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot0 vs XP Message-ID: <f3m59d$a1j$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <200705311339.37683.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200705311339.37683.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> I recently reinstalled Windows XP on my laptop (I barely use it but
> occasionally it comes in handy :) and when I did the install it made
> the base drive E (no idea why, and I couldn't see how to change it).
This is a well-known problem (at least to those who deal with
dual-booting Windows and FreeBSD often) - if you (re)install Windows at
any point AFTER installing FreeBSD, it will complain. This is not
FreeBSD-specific: Windows really wants to mess around with its mappings
of drives ("C:", etc.) to primary partitions during SETUP (extended
partitions are mostly fine).
I don't know the solution to this - I've always had to reinstall
everything when that happened, but you might try writing down the
parameters of your FreeBSD partition, then delete it, then reinstall
Windows, verify that everything's working, then restore your FreeBSD
partition. This is, of course, extremely risky.
For me, it always works if I install Windows first, then FreeBSD later,
never the other way around.
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