Date: 30 Jun 2003 12:17:52 -0700 From: Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues Message-ID: <1057000672.694.4.camel@borges> In-Reply-To: <3F008280.4080402@mac.com> References: <1056997197.39385.25.camel@borges> <3F008280.4080402@mac.com>
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On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:33, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Scott Reese wrote: > > After the install, I was able > > to boot FreeBSD with no problems at all, but when I went to boot up > > Windows, I received the dreaded 'NTLDR missing' message. > > Try marking the Windows partition as active (via fdisk from MS-DOS, or > /stand/sysinstall), and see whether that does any better. Just tried it from /stand/sysinstall and no joy. Though I maybe did get a clue why the fresh install mucked things up: When I told fdisk to "write" the changes I made (marking the first NTFS partition bootable), I received an error message that ad0 couldn't be written. I'm still receiving the 'NTLDR is missing' message. This worked for 4.x and 5.0-RELEASE on this same machine and I'm somewhat mystified as to why it is now broken with a fresh 5.1 install. Any other suggestions? I'm thinking of perhaps re-installing Windows from scratch (I don't need it for much) and then using the 2k boot loader to boot FreeBSD. There is a way to do that, isn't there? -Scott
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