From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 10:17:26 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 B995737B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from transpacific.net (lincoln.transbay.net [209.133.53.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BF043FCB for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:17:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sreese@codysbooks.com) Received: from [192.168.0.24] (stalwart.codysbooks.com [209.133.54.175]) by transpacific.net (8.11.6p2/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h62HHHp57321; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:17:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Reese To: Jud In-Reply-To: References: <1056997197.39385.25.camel@borges> <1057012562.694.20.camel@borges> <1057083140.4955.10.camel@borges> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Cody's Books, Inc. Message-Id: <1057166266.8068.5.camel@borges> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 02 Jul 2003 10:17:46 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 17:17:27 -0000 On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 19:36, Jud wrote: [snip] > > 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'. After weighing all the options, I decided to go ahead and install Win 2k from scratch. XP wasn't terribly happy on this machine anyway (XP being something of a hog) and I don't really need Windows for all that much. > [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. > > Let us know how things turn out. GAG is a winner! It was easy to install and is easy to use. It worked like a charm. Thanks! -Scott