From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 19:36:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8894337B401 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:36:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A0443FCB for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D64D151; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:35:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Tue, 01 Jul 2003 22:35:22 -0400 X-Epoch: 1057113322 X-Sasl-enc: zuLD3TxFFnNxn3CZf1GxfQ Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.84.125.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.84.125]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E1D4148; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:35:18 -0400 (EDT) To: Scott Reese References: <1056997197.39385.25.camel@borges> <200306302310.34846.andrew@cream.org> <1057012562.694.20.camel@borges> <200307010134.36616.andrew@cream.org> <1057083140.4955.10.camel@borges> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 22:36:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1057083140.4955.10.camel@borges> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 2970 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 02:36:37 -0000 On 01 Jul 2003 18:12:20 +0000, Scott Reese wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 01:34, Jud wrote: >> >> > > 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 don't think that will make any difference in my case. Costs nothing to try, eh? Since you're planning to Win-ize the MBR anyway. > Just a recap: > > I have two physical drives (ad0, ad1). XP is on ad0 (the first drive) > and FreeBSD is on ad1 (the second drive). I have been using booteasy on > the *first* drive with a regular mbr on the second and that worked just > fine until I did a fresh install of 5.1. What I'm trying to get at is > how best to re-install windows (or work around the 'NTLDR is missing' > message) *without* then rendering my FreeBSD install unbootable because > we all know that Windows overwrites the mbr by default because it thinks > it's supreme ruler of the universe. Short of reinstalling the entire Win OS, you can save time and trouble by booting from your XP CD and electing to repair your XP installation, either automatically or from the console by using the 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' commands. Or if you happen to have a Win98 rescue floppy hanging around, you can boot off that and do 'fdisk /mbr'. [snip] >> 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. > > Thanks, I will take a look at it. > > -Scott Let us know how things turn out. Jud