Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:43:42 +0400 From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh.s@gmail.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR Message-ID: <38b3f6e4050131074327d2e583@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41FE17A7.3030006@freebsd.org> References: <38b3f6e40501292247696b96b@mail.gmail.com> <38b3f6e4050129231132f8e743@mail.gmail.com> <41FCA314.3070602@netcabo.pt> <38b3f6e4050130033551e43818@mail.gmail.com> <20050130120618.GA21695@alzatex.com> <38b3f6e4050130235957c049c2@mail.gmail.com> <41FDEFE7.1090204@freebsd.org> <38b3f6e40501310216de768e@mail.gmail.com> <20050131103523.GC8619@alzatex.com> <41FE17A7.3030006@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:33:59 +0000, Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> wrote: > I rewrote that section of the FAQ years ago (around FreeBSD 3.1!!) > because the previous wording was unclear and I did _exactly_ what > Rakhesh has done :-( Ah! Glad to see I am not the only one. :))) Felt really goofy when I read that this goofup that I did was clearly documented in the handbook! Thankfully I had backups (I keep doing this sort of messups every now and then :p) and so I wasn't too freaked out when I discovered my entire partition table and boot sectors erased -- but it wasn't a nice sight either. The thought of re-installing everything, plus restoring from backups, yada yada yada ... thankfully I managed to find a program for recovering the partitions. > Caveat: Things have no doubt changed since then so it may now be > possible to add FreeBSD to the NTLDR menu with FreeBSD on a different > disk, but I've never investigated it as I am happy with the solution I use. Actually, I know that I can very well use GRUB or BootEasy to do this job. But I dunno, its this curiousity that has gotten over me -- to explore NTLDR a bit more, and to see why I can't boot into FreeBSD with it. If I had gotten a definitive answer that its *not* possible, then I would have given up -- but as it is, nobody has said its not possible, and added to that I can see if I extract the bootsectors using a program like BootPart then things work, and so I am highly curious why I can't get things working with conventional tools and methods like "dd" etc! Guess if I get no answers, I'll just start using BootEasy, but I'm curious why things dont work nevertheless. :)) And I'm all the more curious what changes BootPart makes to the extracted bootsectors to make them work with NTLDR. -- -- Rakhesh rax@rakhesh.com
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