From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 08:26:21 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 4218216A4CF for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:26:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hanoi.cronyx.ru (hanoi.cronyx.ru [144.206.181.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663CF43D2D for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:26:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rik@cronyx.ru) Received: (from root@localhost) by hanoi.cronyx.ru id i8S8NQYc028177 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG.checked; (8.12.8/vak/2.1) Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:23:26 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from rik@cronyx.ru) Received: from cronyx.ru (hi.cronyx.ru [144.206.181.94]) by hanoi.cronyx.ru with ESMTP id i8S8MvDx028135; (8.12.8/vak/2.1) Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:22:57 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from rik@cronyx.ru) Message-ID: <41591FFE.3040206@cronyx.ru> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:25:34 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dimitry Andric References: <9F67035A-48C9-11D7-8C19-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> <1046192310.3e5ba0b6aa039@sms.ed.ac.uk> <1565082305.20040927150136@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <1565082305.20040927150136@andric.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Andrew Boothman cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: dwbear75@gmail.com cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install 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: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:26:21 -0000 I've seen this before 5.0 release and made some investigation of this proble. I didn't look this thread carefully so excuse me if information I give to all you is useless. My investigation show that FreeBSD reads full partition table, and after modification puts it back. It fix all entries from its own point of view. Windows dies from change of end of partition entry. As I understand with large disk it shouldn't mean anything at all. But windows checks it. You may save this entry and after installation of FreeBSD put it back. rik Dimitry Andric wrote: >On 2003-02-25 at 18:58:30 Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > >>I can't understand how the 5.x boot manager has managed to break my windows >>boot, i've never had any trouble under 3.x or 4.x, both of which played with >>windows perfectly nicely. >> >> > >Sorry for catching up on this thread so late, but couldn't this be >some nasty problem with hard drive geometries? I.e. FreeBSD's >interpretation of the partition table could be totally different from >Windows', causing the rather flaky Microsoft bootloaders to fail. > >I personally have had complaints from PartitionMagic and various other >Windows-based tools about partitions being "invalid" or having >"different CHS and LBA boundaries" etc, after installing some versions >of FreeBSD, and creating partitions from its installer. > >Could you please give us some info about your drive geometry, and/or >or a somewhat low-level dump of your partition table data? > >