From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 28 03:35:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F361065672 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 03:35:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kent@khauser.net) Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com (mail-px0-f174.google.com [209.85.216.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A668FC19 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 03:35:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kent@khauser.net) Received: by pxi4 with SMTP id 4so4317306pxi.3 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.124.1 with SMTP id w1mr1055433wac.132.1243480474614; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:14:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MacBook.khauser.net (udp157170uds.hawaiiantel.net [72.253.1.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m30sm1883271wag.18.2009.05.27.20.14.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 May 2009 20:14:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <238275A7-7886-4532-A46C-ACB535DF16F7@khauser.net> From: KENT HAUSER To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:14:32 -1000 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Cc: admin@cpcnw.co.uk Subject: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot 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: Thu, 28 May 2009 03:35:36 -0000 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. My system disk has 3 partitions: ad0s2 is first (XP recovery). Next is ad0s1 (XP) followed by FreeBSD. Thanks for any input.