From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 26 11:27:29 2003 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 7E3D937B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:27:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com (msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com [192.25.240.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3CE43F93 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:27:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from relcos2.cos.agilent.com (relcos2.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.237]) by msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 636F916E4; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:27:27 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by relcos2.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7BC471; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:27:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_25184)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id LAA07522; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:27:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200302261927.LAA07522@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) Cc: Andrew Boothman , Matt Smith , Lucas Holt , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:22:00 PST." <15964.63416.595988.941311@rosebud.alerce.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.7) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:27:25 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) wrote: > I'm pretty sure that it's not operator error on my part, since it > happened several times. I suspect that there aren't that many people > playing with 5.0 that don't install the standard boot stuff, and so > that path isn't exercised too much. I installed 5.0 with the booteasy MBR on my IBM laptop, and it worked fine. The problem I had was that *ANY* MBR-based boot program interfered with IBM's special "product recovery" software, and so I instead decided to just use Win2K/XP's boot mechanism to boot FreeBSD (as I explained in my previous message). [ Yes, FreeBSD and XP (in my case) would still have worked if I kept booteasy, but I really wanted to keep IBM's product recovery software, and so I switched to using 2K/XP's method. In hindsight, that's probably the best approach, as it doesn't require any MBR changes or boot floppies/CDs. ] -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message