From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 2 15:26:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 D5F5116A41F for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:26:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D3243D5F for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:26:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z6so793746nzd for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 08:26:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OYdXS6Ryqk6iLMq18ueFWmHUPJabO4h/grAkwRuYdhuRs2sysrPnm3RkXMbQEMdvIoZB4BTmXgKI2VpFOGYBgt9/CLa2KFNvUIH8x39GZH/SV/xtfWnTTSEFXNN+twn63UV79kIejy4S9V3UByJWa//rh67HVZE4mMXWnEjOT6w= Received: by 10.37.18.54 with SMTP id v54mr939080nzi; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 08:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.221.21 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 08:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54db43990508020826c9823be@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:26:32 -0400 From: Bob Johnson To: Jerry Tarwid In-Reply-To: <000601c59499$b7589470$6600a8c0@monster> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <000601c59499$b7589470$6600a8c0@monster> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I get rid of booteasy??? & re-install windows xp mbr using ntfs??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bob Johnson List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:26:33 -0000 On 7/29/05, Jerry Tarwid wrote: > I am dual booting with Winblows XP and FreeBSD. I installed the FreeBSD B= oot > manager so I can dual boot. I now want to remove it! I have freaking scou= red > the $@!#$! net & still have NOT found an answer??? Anyone???? I'm using a= n > NTFS volume so fdisk/mbr doesn't work and neither does booting to an xp c= d > recovery console and using fixboot or fixmbr. The $#!@#$ booteasy boot > manager still leaves something in the mbr....nothing works! I cannot beli= eve > that I am the only human being on the planet that has encountered this > problem! A LITTLE HELP??? fdisk /MBR doesn't work if you have NTFS on the drive? That's news to me. The boot sector shouldn't care what filesystem you happen to have put in one of the partitions. You will need to mark the Windows partition as the active partition, otherwise it will try to boot to whatever IS marked as the active partition, which may result in discouraging error messages. And I've noticed that odd things can happen when XP isn't installed in the first partition on the disk, but I don't know if that would cause what you are seeing now. For future reference, you don't need a boot manager to dual-boot with XP. It has its own boot manager that works just fine. Somewhere on freebsd.org there is a howto that explains how to do it, although the last time I looked it was talking about Windows NT. Still works the same. My solution was to delete Windows and only boot to FreeBSD. - Bob