From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 15:43:44 2005 Return-Path: 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 402F116A4CE for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:43:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8867143D48 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:43:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rakhesh.s@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so701399wra for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:43:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=OoncYY1CwpSl/6aJ4ORQtD9/DALwhdRFw2c1Pt6/yjNt2fiV0tRNFdhRbqiyfeljR859DIUEi4pA2SgTzs9J8rW3lFJpt/a610PIBR/z46cVr+Fd4jj6ZwJ3PpjkDANuSvDskT0wWPbG9c/NTkDGr949DHchM/5T5qMKdC7useg= Received: by 10.54.35.38 with SMTP id i38mr10572wri; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:43:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.30.9 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:43:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38b3f6e4050131074327d2e583@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:43:42 +0400 From: Rakhesh Sasidharan To: Mark Ovens , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <41FE17A7.3030006@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: rax@rakhesh.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:43:44 -0000 On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:33:59 +0000, Mark Ovens 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