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

From: Andrew Boothman (andrew_at_cream.org)
Date: 07/01/03

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    To: Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:10:34 +0100

    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 to go with 5.1-RELEASE. As usual, I chose to use
    > the FreeBSD boot loader on ad0 (the Windows drive) and to install a
    > standard mbr on ad1 (the FreeBSD drive). 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.
    >
    > So, to get the point, I was wondering if there was a way to make the
    > Windows disk bootable again *without* having to reinstall Windows. I
    > know that if I reinstall Windows, it will think it's king of the
    > universe and write over booteasy and thus make my FreeBSD installation
    > unbootable. I've tried searching google and the list archives, but,
    > surprisingly enough (as I know there have been about a billion threads
    > along this line), was unable to find anything useful. Any advice or
    > pointers on how to do this would be *greatly* appreciated.

    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's only happening to some installations - but I was
    certainly in the same boat.

    I ended up having to re-install Win2k and I used Grub as my new bootloader.

    Cheers.

    Andrew.

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