From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 26 12: 7:49 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 9ADE737B409 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from kestrel.alerce.com (kestrel.alerce.com [209.182.219.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48CA43F93 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:07:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (bios-2101-104.LIPS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.96.42]) by kestrel.alerce.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h1QK7Vk6074247 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) X-Authentication-Warning: kestrel.alerce.com: Host bios-2101-104.LIPS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.96.42] claimed to be rosebud.alerce.com Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (rosebud.alerce.com [127.0.0.1]) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1QK7hei063794 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:07:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) Received: (from hartzell@localhost) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.7/8.12.6/Submit) id h1QK7glT063701; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:07:42 -0800 (PST) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15965.7822.181074.204822@rosebud.alerce.com> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:07:42 -0800 To: Darryl Okahata Cc: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell), Andrew Boothman , Matt Smith , Lucas Holt , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install In-Reply-To: <200302261927.LAA07522@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: <15964.63416.595988.941311@rosebud.alerce.com> <200302261927.LAA07522@mina.soco.agilent.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) 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 Darryl Okahata writes: > [...] > 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. ] What we're doing is almost the same thing. In your case, your windows partition is the active partition, so you run the vendor's MBR, which jumps to the Windows loader, which jumps to whatever you choose. MBR --> NTLR ---+--> FreeBSD | +--> Windows I mark the partition that contains grub active (these days have a freebsd world in my second slice/partition, with grub installed at the beginning of that) and use it to jump wherever. MBR --> GRUB ---+--> FreeBSD | +--> Windows Only differences are which partition we mark active and what boot loader lives there. g. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message