On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Steve Hodgson wrote: > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 16:58, Andrew Boothman wrote: >> Quoting Lucas Holt <luke_at_foolishgames.com>: >>> It probably is. You need to put in the win 2k CD and do a repair on >>> your windows install.. unfortunetely this may screw up your freebsd >>> install. >>> >>> On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 05:58 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> I've just installed 5-RELEASE, and I asked for the FreeBSD Boot >>>> Manager to be installed on both my HDDs. >>>> >>>> When the machine boots I'm given options for : >>>> >>>> F1 - DOS >>>> F5 - Drive 2 >>>> >>>> Hitting F5 takes me to a second menu, where I can boot FreeBSD no >>>> problem. My problem is that Win2k will no longer boot.... Hitting F1 >>>> displays a message that, "NTLDR is missing". I've tried all the repair >>>> >>>> options on the Win2k setup disc to no avail I think. >>>> >>>> I'm sorry this isn't directly FreeBSD related, but I really hope my >>>> Win2k installation isn't hosed. >> >> Thanks for replying! Sorry, I didn't follow your thread completely. Did yo have a look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q119467 ? This is about missing NTLDRs. Regards, Uli. >> >> I can't understand how the 5.x boot manager has managed to break my windows >> boot, i've never had any trouble under 3.x or 4.x, both of which played >> with windows perfectly nicely. >> >> I think i've tried all of the various repair options on the Win2k CD, >> including getting it to do a fresh installation into a different folder >> (c:\tempwin), but even that failed with the "NTLDR missing" message! >> However you no longer get the booteasy (F1.... F2) menu anymore, so Windows >> must have rewritten something. It still doesn't explain why Win2k still >> won't boot. >> >> I'm running out of ideas and I *really* don't want to have to reformat my >> windows drive! >> >> Other than this (fairly major) problem, my 5.0 installation went really >> well, even ACPI seems to be working perfectly and I even found a KLD to >> support my on- board sound card! :) >> >> I really want to get windows booting again so I can continue to play with >> 5.0 without worrying... >> >> Any help is much appricated! >> > It could well be that windows has become confused about the partition > numbering. the important file is c:\boot.ini. It will have a line like... > > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows" /fastdetect > > I can't recall what all the numbers mean and IIRC documentation is slightly > scant, but try changing the numbers, in particular the partition() part and > see if that helps. Since you can't boot windows its not obvious how to edit > the file, recovery console or knoppix are the two methods i would try. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+Received on Sun Sep 26 2004 - 23:40:28 UTC
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