Sorry I was less than clear. I've been running XP + FreeBSD dual boot forever. After installing 7.2 (rebuilding from source), the XP partition wouldn't boot. When I selected "F1" at the boot menu, the system just hung.
I booted from an old 6.2 install disk I had around & selected "Custom/Partition" & used the hidden "W" command to write the partition information & boot manager. I could then dual-boot XP / FreeBSD 7.2. For fun, I tried "Custom/Partiion/Write" from the 7.2 DVD & it hung just like the rebuild from source. Fixed again with 6.2 disk. My conclusion is that 7.2 (or 7.1 -- I moved from 7.0) broke dual boot. Any other thoughts? Kent On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Glen Barber <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, Kent > > You're going to need to provide a bit more detail on the problem. > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:14 PM, KENT HAUSER <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any resolution to this? I had the same problem upgrading from > 7.0 > > -> 7.2. I've been running FreeBSD dual-boot for over 10 years w/o this > > problem in the past. > > > > I re-ran my fdisk script from an old 6.x boot disk & recovered the XP > > partitions, but can't boot 7.2. Re-installing 7.2 kills XP. > > > > XP doesn't show up in the bootloader? > > If you're running 7.X, why are you using a 6.X boot disk? That may be > part of the problem. > > > My system disk has 3 partitions: ad0s2 is first (XP recovery). Next is > ad0s1 > > (XP) followed by FreeBSD. > > > > Do you see the FreeBSD booloader or Windows bootloader? > > Not that this fixes the problem, but have you tried installing GRUB? > > I personally have been dual-booting for the past year+, and haven't > seen what you're describing (unless I overwrote my ${OTHER_OS} > installation) -- are you sure the Windows install still exists? > > -- > Glen Barber > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
