From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 18:40:44 2003 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 2765737B401 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECD34400D for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:40:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0170116 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:39:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:39:31 -0400 X-Epoch: 1057023571 X-Sasl-enc: 2W7gThLqUbKYG9001iFUMQ Received: from sparky (dialup-63.214.202.156.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [63.214.202.156]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF5E1111 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:39:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200307010134.36616.andrew@cream.org> References: <1056997197.39385.25.camel@borges> <200306302310.34846.andrew@cream.org> <1057012562.694.20.camel@borges> <200307010134.36616.andrew@cream.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <oprrlyxzxp0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:40:37 -0400 User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 2968 Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 01:40:44 -0000 On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 01:34:36 +0100, Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2003 11:36 pm, Scott Reese wrote: >> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 22:10, Andrew Boothman wrote: >> > On Monday 30 June 2003 7:19 pm, Scott Reese wrote: >> > > Previously, I had a dual-boot setup with FreeBSD 5.0 and Windows XP. >> I >> > > was using booteasy as the boot loader and I had no problem booting >> into >> > > either Windows or FreeBSD. However, I found myself having to >> reinstall >> > > FreeBSD so I decided to go with 5.1-RELEASE. As usual, I chose to >> use >> > > the FreeBSD boot loader on ad0 (the Windows drive) and to install a >> > > standard mbr on ad1 (the FreeBSD drive). After the install, I was >> able >> > > to boot FreeBSD with no problems at all, but when I went to boot up >> > > Windows, I received the dreaded 'NTLDR missing' message. [grub stuff snipped] A few comments about the thread so far: ISTM the easiest thing for you to do is install booteasy on *both* drives. That should work fine. I think Jesse Guardini's suggestion works when Win and FreeBSD are on the same drive. You can still use the NT/2K/XP bootloader when the OSs are on different drives, but problem is, I could never figure out exactly what the FAQ was trying to tell me on that score. You might take a look at the FAQ and see if it's clear to you. Grub is a fine bootloader, but I've heard it doesn't like UFS2 filesystems, and I've also heard 5.1 uses UFS2 for / as default, causing grub not to work. Is your / UFS1 or UFS2? (Or to ask another way, did you upgrade via cvsup (resulting in UFS1 root) or install 5.1 from scratch (resulting in UFS2 root)? If you can use grub and decide you'd like to do so, the "rootnoverify" line is no longer necessary with Win2K. You may want to have a look at GAG, which is freeware, open source, graphical, and rather automagic. Worked "out of the box" on my setup, which involves dual booting Win2K and FreeBSD from a RAID0 array. Jud