Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:19:32 +0200 From: Laurens Timmermans <lauwe@planet.nl> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice" Message-ID: <453A64B4.4000504@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <200610211048.55010.kstewart@owt.com> References: <453A45CE.3080301@planet.nl> <200610211048.55010.kstewart@owt.com>
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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 FreeBSD and >> Windows XP. I have tried this before using NTLOADER on my desktop-pc >> (by following the directions in the faq) and it works like a charm, >> but not on my laptop... >> I installed FreeBSD, copied /boot/boot1 to a usb-stick, set my >> windows-slice active and added a freebsd-entry to my boot.ini. >> When i boot i get the ntloader-menu, it boots xp just fine but when i >> choose FreeBSD i get "invalid slice". I can get back into my >> freebsd-install by setting it's slice active again (using >> boot/rescue-cd). I am using FreeBSD 6.2-beta2 (because of support for >> my pentium M). My disk looks as following: >> >> -ad0s1 = dell recovery-partition >> -ad0s2 = NTFS (windows xp) >> -ad0s3 = FreeBSD >> >> from fstab: >> +ad0s3b = swap >> +ad0s3a = / >> +ad0s3e = /tmp >> +ad0s3f = /usr >> +ad0s3d = /var >> >> How can i get this to work using ntloader ? >> > > 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"
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