Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:45:27 +0200 From: Laurens Timmermans <lauwe@planet.nl> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, Tore Lund <toreld@netscape.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice" Message-ID: <453A78D7.9050300@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <200610211135.16683.kstewart@owt.com> References: <453A45CE.3080301@planet.nl> <200610211048.55010.kstewart@owt.com> <453A64B4.4000504@planet.nl> <200610211135.16683.kstewart@owt.com>
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Kent Stewart schreef: > On Saturday 21 October 2006 11:19, Laurens Timmermans wrote: >> Kent Stewart schreef: >>> On Saturday 21 October 2006 09:07, Laurens Timmermans wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with ... >>> That is very similar to what I am using right now on this computer >>> and 3 others. What does your boot.ini look like. >>> >>> Kent >> My boot.ini looks like this: >> >> [boot loader] >> timeout=5 >> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS >> [operating systems] >> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP >> Professinal" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect >> c:\boot1="FreeBSD" >> > > The only difference is I called it bootsect.bsd to make it look like > everything else. Could you have somehow copied it badly. I always have > a machine running and did a binary ftp to the local machine and then > renamed to to the *.bsd. > > Kent > I don't see what could have gone wrong with the copying. I tried a couple of times. Tore Lund schreef: > Laurens Timmermans wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD ... > > I found a thread that may or may not be relevant - this message in > particular: > > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2005-09/0177.html > > Start of thread: > > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2005-09/0079.html Thank you for that link, the problem described there is in a way similar to mine. Unfortunately the problem was fixed by updating the bios, and i already have the latest version (A04) for my laptop (Dell Precision M70).
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