From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 22 13:22:52 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 CF00316A415 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:22:52 +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 88CFE43D55 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:22:52 +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 k9MDMmpE003566; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:22:48 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:22:51 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <453A45CE.3080301@planet.nl> <453B2ECE.2040408@planet.nl> <200610220545.26095.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200610220545.26095.kstewart@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610220622.51281.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: lauwe@planet.nl 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 13:22:52 -0000 On Sunday 22 October 2006 05:45, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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. > I went back to the source and it looks like RU recently updated boot1 (1 Oct). The boot1 I use came from a 6.0 or 6.1 iso. I will try the boot1 that my current 6-stable creates but I am still in the middle of doing a portupgrade -rf libgpg-error It still has a while to go :). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html