Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:41:48 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Balakin Alex <alex@tfpk.com.ua> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win2K & FreeBSD 4.1-20000923-ST Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.1001022082915.224B-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <00b501c03b4c$df98cbe0$0200000a@alex>
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Balakin Alex wrote:
> I've got a problem. I have Win2K Professional and FreeBSD
> 4.1-20000923-STABLE
> on one hard disk. Here is a problem with boot loader - after loading of
> FreeBSD, I
> can't load Win2K getting message "NTLDR not found".
> This can be fixed only throught repair mode in Windows.
>
> Did anybody have such problem ? What is the way to solve it ?
Did you create a new partition for your FreeBSD install?
My guess (from experience with NT4) is that the Win2K bootstrap is now
treating your Win2K's partition as having a different ID than it had when
you did the initial Win2K install :-(
The relevant place to look is BOOT.INI in the root directory of your NT
boot partition (at least it was for NT4). This was a text file which
contained all the boot options for the NT loader.
When this happened to me, I'd just installed FreeBSD (and hadn't changed
the boot loader), and wanted to start NT to add FreeBSD to the NT loader
menu. I was able to do a minimal reinstall of NT to a different directory
on the boot drive (thus keeping my existing install in one piece) which
rewrote the BOOT.INI file. I also had Win95, which wasn't affected by the
partition reordering, so I was able to preserve a copy of the BOOT.INI
before reinstalling NT for later comparison, which was how I figured out
what had actually caused NT to barf in the first place.
Hope this helps you a little...
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