From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 22 12:45:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA0E16A407 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:45:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D77E43D75 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:45:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9MCjNpE001831; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:45:23 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: lauwe@planet.nl Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:45:25 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <453A45CE.3080301@planet.nl> <200610211453.23495.kbstew01@owt.com> <453B2ECE.2040408@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <453B2ECE.2040408@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610220545.26095.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:45:32 -0000 On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:41, Laurens Timmermans wrote: > Kent Stewart schreef: > > Well "copy" will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You have > > /a and /b to force one type or the other. > > > > Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I think a drag and drop does > > will also prefer to copy as binary. > > > > Kent > > I tried the following: > > "bsdlabel -B ad0s3" > according to the manual this should recreate boot1 and boot2 ? I made > a backup of boot1 but the above command does not recreate boot1. It > only does something with /boot/boot. So i restored the backup of > boot1, copied the first 512 bytes of /boot/boot to a usb-stick using > dd. I booted back into windows and used xcopy to copy the boot1-file > to my c:. > > But still i get "Invalid slice" The boot1 I use is created when you do the installworld and is /boot/boot1. When you are on the same HD as your Windows ntldr, that is all you need to use. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html