Matt Smith wrote:
What does your Drive Layout look like? Is your W2k partition FAT32?
Has it always been the first partition on the drive, or did you move it,
using something like partition magic? Is freeBSD in the extended
partition?
-Matt
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:58, Andrew Boothman wrote:
Quoting Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
It probably is. You need to put in the win 2k CD and do a repair on
your windows install.. unfortunetely this may screw up your freebsd
install.
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 05:58 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote:
Hi!
I've just installed 5-RELEASE, and I asked for the FreeBSD Boot
Manager to be installed on both my HDDs.
When the machine boots I'm given options for :
F1 - DOS
F5 - Drive 2
Hitting F5 takes me to a second menu, where I can boot FreeBSD no
problem. My problem is that Win2k will no longer boot.... Hitting F1
displays a message that, "NTLDR is missing". I've tried all the repair
options on the Win2k setup disc to no avail I think.
I'm sorry this isn't directly FreeBSD related, but I really hope my
Win2k installation isn't hosed.
Thanks for replying!
I can't understand how the 5.x boot manager has managed to break my windows
boot, i've never had any trouble under 3.x or 4.x, both of which played with
windows perfectly nicely.
I think i've tried all of the various repair options on the Win2k CD, including
getting it to do a fresh installation into a different folder (c:\tempwin), but
even that failed with the "NTLDR missing" message! However you no longer get
the booteasy (F1.... F2) menu anymore, so Windows must have rewritten
something. It still doesn't explain why Win2k still won't boot.
My experience with the FBSD boot manager is virtually zero, so I can't
address it's workings, but I use GRUB as a booter just because it gets
me out of so many jams like yours -- if something isn't where you thought
it was you can point GRUB at your disks and let it do the looking for you.
The secret is to make a boot floppy with GRUB installed on it. Once you
have that there's no machine that's unbootable, and you can reinstall GRUB
in seconds if it gets overwritten by Bill & Co.
For example, IIRC, I just went thru this myself (although it's all so routine
now I can't even remember what I do to bail out anymore) when I installed XP
on a brand new disk and then installed FBSD afterwards. I got the MBR screwed
up just like you, then ran the XP install disk in "Repair" mode which got XP
to boot again but overwrote the FBSD booter. So all I did was boot my trusty
GRUB floppy and reinstalled GRUB on the MBR in about 60 seconds and -- done.
The next evil news is that I've never really gotten FBSD's incarnation of
GRUB to work right for me, so I just install in on the floppy from a linux
machine and use that for the FBSD machine.
If you have access to GRUB and need instructions I'd be happy to help.
Just let me know.
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