From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 21 21:56:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8D037B4CF for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id PAA03102; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:55:53 +1100 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central-f.apana.org.au [203.9.107.235]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA16525; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:46:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:41:48 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Balakin Alex Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win2K & FreeBSD 4.1-20000923-ST In-Reply-To: <00b501c03b4c$df98cbe0$0200000a@alex> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Balakin Alex wrote: > I've got a problem. I have Win2K Professional and FreeBSD > 4.1-20000923-STABLE > on one hard disk. Here is a problem with boot loader - after loading of > FreeBSD, I > can't load Win2K getting message "NTLDR not found". > This can be fixed only throught repair mode in Windows. > > Did anybody have such problem ? What is the way to solve it ? Did you create a new partition for your FreeBSD install? My guess (from experience with NT4) is that the Win2K bootstrap is now treating your Win2K's partition as having a different ID than it had when you did the initial Win2K install :-( The relevant place to look is BOOT.INI in the root directory of your NT boot partition (at least it was for NT4). This was a text file which contained all the boot options for the NT loader. When this happened to me, I'd just installed FreeBSD (and hadn't changed the boot loader), and wanted to start NT to add FreeBSD to the NT loader menu. I was able to do a minimal reinstall of NT to a different directory on the boot drive (thus keeping my existing install in one piece) which rewrote the BOOT.INI file. I also had Win95, which wasn't affected by the partition reordering, so I was able to preserve a copy of the BOOT.INI before reinstalling NT for later comparison, which was how I figured out what had actually caused NT to barf in the first place. Hope this helps you a little... -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 andymac@pcug.org.au (play2) | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message