From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 01:40:28 2004 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 6F36F16A4D8 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:40:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBEB043D55 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:40:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 23316 invoked by uid 513); 27 Sep 2004 01:47:37 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.21 Clear:RC:1(213.146.114.24):SA:0(-4.9/5.0):. Processed in 1.185491 secs); 27 Sep 2004 01:47:37 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 27 Sep 2004 01:47:36 -0000 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 03:40:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: root@pukruppa.net To: Steve Hodgson In-Reply-To: <200409251446.30563.steve@howes-macnaghten.com> Message-ID: <20040927033428.H17754@pukruppa.net> References: <9F67035A-48C9-11D7-8C19-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> <200409251446.30563.steve@howes-macnaghten.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:59:53 +0000 cc: Andrew Boothman cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: dwbear75@gmail.com cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install 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: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:40:28 -0000 On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Steve Hodgson wrote: > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 16:58, Andrew Boothman wrote: >> Quoting Lucas Holt : >>> It probably is. You need to put in the win 2k CD and do a repair on >>> your windows install.. unfortunetely this may screw up your freebsd >>> install. >>> >>> On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 05:58 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> I've just installed 5-RELEASE, and I asked for the FreeBSD Boot >>>> Manager to be installed on both my HDDs. >>>> >>>> When the machine boots I'm given options for : >>>> >>>> F1 - DOS >>>> F5 - Drive 2 >>>> >>>> Hitting F5 takes me to a second menu, where I can boot FreeBSD no >>>> problem. My problem is that Win2k will no longer boot.... Hitting F1 >>>> displays a message that, "NTLDR is missing". I've tried all the repair >>>> >>>> options on the Win2k setup disc to no avail I think. >>>> >>>> I'm sorry this isn't directly FreeBSD related, but I really hope my >>>> Win2k installation isn't hosed. >> >> Thanks for replying! Sorry, I didn't follow your thread completely. Did yo have a look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q119467 ? This is about missing NTLDRs. Regards, Uli. >> >> 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. >> >> I think i've tried all of the various repair options on the Win2k CD, >> including getting it to do a fresh installation into a different folder >> (c:\tempwin), but even that failed with the "NTLDR missing" message! >> However you no longer get the booteasy (F1.... F2) menu anymore, so Windows >> must have rewritten something. It still doesn't explain why Win2k still >> won't boot. >> >> I'm running out of ideas and I *really* don't want to have to reformat my >> windows drive! >> >> Other than this (fairly major) problem, my 5.0 installation went really >> well, even ACPI seems to be working perfectly and I even found a KLD to >> support my on- board sound card! :) >> >> I really want to get windows booting again so I can continue to play with >> 5.0 without worrying... >> >> Any help is much appricated! >> > It could well be that windows has become confused about the partition > numbering. the important file is c:\boot.ini. It will have a line like... > > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows" /fastdetect > > I can't recall what all the numbers mean and IIRC documentation is slightly > scant, but try changing the numbers, in particular the partition() part and > see if that helps. Since you can't boot windows its not obvious how to edit > the file, recovery console or knoppix are the two methods i would try. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+