Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-07-02 Thread Scott Reese
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 19:36, Jud wrote: [snip] > > I have two physical drives (ad0, ad1). XP is on ad0 (the first drive) > > and FreeBSD is on ad1 (the second drive). I have been using booteasy on > > the *first* drive with a regular mbr on the second and that worked just > > fine until I did a f

Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-07-01 Thread Jud
On 01 Jul 2003 18:12:20 +, Scott Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 01:34, Jud wrote: >> > > to boot FreeBSD with no problems at all, but when I went to boot up >> > > Windows, I received the dreaded 'NTLDR missing' message. [grub stuff snipped] A few comments about the t

Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-07-01 Thread Scott Reese
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 01:34, Jud wrote: > >> > > to boot FreeBSD with no problems at all, but when I went to boot up > >> > > Windows, I received the dreaded 'NTLDR missing' message. > [grub stuff snipped] > > A few comments about the thread so far: > > ISTM the easiest thing for you to do is ins

Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-06-30 Thread Craig Boston
On Monday 30 June 2003 08:34 pm, Jud wrote: > I think Jesse Guardini's suggestion works when Win and FreeBSD are on the > same drive. You can still use the NT/2K/XP bootloader when the OSs are on > different drives, but problem is, I could never figure out exactly what the > FAQ was trying to tell

Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-06-30 Thread Jud
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 01:34:36 +0100, Andrew Boothman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 30 June 2003 11:36 pm, Scott Reese wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 22:10, Andrew Boothman wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2003 7:19 pm, Scott Reese wrote: > > Previously, I had a dual-boot setup with FreeBSD 5.0 and W

Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-06-30 Thread Andrew Boothman
On Monday 30 June 2003 11:36 pm, Scott Reese wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 22:10, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > On Monday 30 June 2003 7:19 pm, Scott Reese wrote: > > > Previously, I had a dual-boot setup with FreeBSD 5.0 and Windows XP. I > > > was using booteasy as the boot loader and I had no pro

Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-06-30 Thread Scott Reese
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 22:10, Andrew Boothman wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2003 7:19 pm, Scott Reese wrote: > > > > Previously, I had a dual-boot setup with FreeBSD 5.0 and Windows XP. I > > was using booteasy as the boot loader and I had no problem booting into > > either Windows or FreeBSD. Howeve

Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-06-30 Thread Scott Reese
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 22:14, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > This seems to be a recurring problem after 5-RELEASE. I had exactly the same > > problem, and I know of others that are the same. For some reason -current > > doesn't seem to be inter-operating well

Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-06-30 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Andrew Boothman wrote: > This seems to be a recurring problem after 5-RELEASE. I had exactly the same > problem, and I know of others that are the same. For some reason -current > doesn't seem to be inter-operating well with the WinXP/Win2k loader anymore. > I'm not sure if it

Re: 5.1-RELEASE & Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-06-30 Thread Andrew Boothman
On Monday 30 June 2003 7:19 pm, Scott Reese wrote: > > Previously, I had a dual-boot setup with FreeBSD 5.0 and Windows XP. I > was using booteasy as the boot loader and I had no problem booting into > either Windows or FreeBSD. However, I found myself having to reinstall > FreeBSD so I decided t