Re: Cannot get Boot Manager launch WinXPsp2
From: Dario (dario.schiavon_at_fastwebnet.it)
Date: 04/04/05
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1905 19:42:12 +0100 To: Pablo Mora <bidjan@gmail.com>
Windows' NTFS partition was unrecoverable: even reinstalling MS's MBR
and boot sector I still had errors (regarding filesystem corruption...).
I've solved the problem by reinstalling Windows, and then configuring
Windows' own booter to launch FreeBSD when requested, as described
somewhere in the Internet.
I think that's the easiest and safest way to dual-boot Windows and
FreeBSD, at least for beginners like me. I wish I had found some mention
in the installation guide...
I had no time to try GAG, but thanks for helping anyway! :)
-Dario
Pablo Mora:
>Test with GAG.
>http://gag.sourceforge.net/
>
Original message:
>> 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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