From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 04:12:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE90C806 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:12:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bourne.identity@hotmail.com) Received: from blu0-omc3-s13.blu0.hotmail.com (blu0-omc3-s13.blu0.hotmail.com [65.55.116.88]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748928FC0C for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:12:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU0-SMTP34 ([65.55.116.74]) by blu0-omc3-s13.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:11:27 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [14.97.145.33] X-EIP: [vgpV660sGpmhqjzmadgpnJba1e+7N+2C] X-Originating-Email: [bourne.identity@hotmail.com] Message-ID: Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([14.97.145.33]) by BLU0-SMTP34.blu0.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:11:26 -0800 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:41:13 +0530 From: Manish Jain User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Bonomi Subject: Re: Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager References: <201211112105.qABL5BFb049050@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <201211112105.qABL5BFb049050@mail.r-bonomi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Nov 2012 04:11:27.0019 (UTC) FILETIME=[C914E7B0:01CDC08B] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:12:33 -0000 On 12-Nov-12 02:35, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:09:09 +0530 >> From: Manish Jain >> 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