Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:41:13 +0530 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP347D83EF7822B5D16AFDACF66D0@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <201211112105.qABL5BFb049050@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201211112105.qABL5BFb049050@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On 12-Nov-12 02:35, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:09:09 +0530 >> From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> >> Subject: Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager >> > .... >> >> When all installation work finished, FreeBSD would boot when I press F2 >> but pressing F1 would fail to boot XP with the error : >> >> "A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot" >> >> Can anybody suggest what might be the problem and any possible solution ? >> > > No help on a fix. i'm fighting that exact problem on a FreeBSD 8.3 > install on a 2nd sata drive with xp pro on the 1st drive. installed > strictly to the 2nd drive -- would select in bios which to boot from. > > booting fbsd works fine. > attempting to boot th XP drive gives the above error. > > Apparently the 8.3 install trashed something on the XP drive. :(( > > > > I am using FreeBSD 8.3 too (i386). When XP failed to boot, a wrote out a new boot sector to drive C: with recovery console's fixboot command, but it did not make a difference. Interestingly, when all seemed lost, I even ran fixmbr, which complained that it could not fix much as my system seemed "to be using a non-standard MBR". Never saw this problem before. Has the Boot Manager code/behavior changed in 8.X ? -- Regards, Manish Jain bourne.identity@hotmail.com
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