Cannot get Boot Manager launch WinXPsp2

dario.schiavon_at_fastwebnet.it
Date: 04/03/05

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    Hi!

    I've always been using MS Windows. Even if I've very little experience with
    Unix-like systems, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3, because I want to learn it
    and see if I can use it for some tasks.

    Since, in any case, I can't abandon Windows (which I'm so used to...), I
    installed the FreeBSD Boot Manager. After the installation process I'm not
    able to launch Windows any more.

    After the power-on self test, what I suppose to be the boot manager appears:
     F1 ??
     F2 FreeBSD
     F5 Drive 1
     Default: F2

    If I'm not making mistakes, F5 will look for a boot manager on the other
    hard disk (I have ad0 with both OSes, and ad1), so F1 should start Windows.
    But I get this error message:
     Errore di lettura da disco
     Premere CTRL+ALT+CANC per riavviare
    which means:
     Disk read error
     Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot
    Which is likely to be Windows' loader complaining for something unknown to
    me.

    What did I mistake? How can I get both OSes to boot as expected?
    FreeBSD boots correctly, so I tried to make sysinstall reinstall the boot
    manager, but it complains:
     ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!
     Disk partition write returned an error status!

    Please help me! I need Windows working as soon as possible...

    Just one more question: I have an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, which
    has two ethernet devices. I got the Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet card successfully
    identified as sk0. Which module should I load to get the integrated MCP-T
    NVIDIA MAC fast ethernet card (which should be part of the nForce2 chipset,
    I think) working?

    Thank you!
    -Dario

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