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

From: Scott Reese (sreese_at_codysbooks.com)
Date: 06/30/03

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    To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: 30 Jun 2003 12:17:52 -0700

    On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:33, Chuck Swiger wrote:
    > Scott Reese wrote:
    > > 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.
    >
    > Try marking the Windows partition as active (via fdisk from MS-DOS, or
    > /stand/sysinstall), and see whether that does any better.

    Just tried it from /stand/sysinstall and no joy. Though I maybe did get
    a clue why the fresh install mucked things up: When I told fdisk to
    "write" the changes I made (marking the first NTFS partition bootable),
    I received an error message that ad0 couldn't be written. I'm still
    receiving the 'NTLDR is missing' message.

    This worked for 4.x and 5.0-RELEASE on this same machine and I'm
    somewhat mystified as to why it is now broken with a fresh 5.1 install.

    Any other suggestions? I'm thinking of perhaps re-installing Windows
    from scratch (I don't need it for much) and then using the 2k boot
    loader to boot FreeBSD. There is a way to do that, isn't there?

    -Scott

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