Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 22:37:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: lukek <lukek@meibin.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot Message-ID: <20030531222846.G49747@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <003301c327e6$47a93a20$300aa8c0@yujo> References: <007501c3271d$26c5fbf0$080aa8c0@yujo> <oprp1522t80cf2rk@fastmail.fm> <001c01c327d2$70ad0af0$300aa8c0@yujo> <oprp2bi7xa0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> <002701c327d7$2241dee0$300aa8c0@yujo> <oprp2g6pq50cf2rk@fastmail.fm> <003301c327e6$47a93a20$300aa8c0@yujo>
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On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, lukek wrote: > You are absolutely correct during the installation process I chose to have > FreeBSD install it's own boot loader just as I had a number of times before > with older versions but there must be a subtle difference between the older > versions and the latest. > > The disk is showing that the NTFS partition is active ( I have used a number > of tools to check on this ) but no cigar. > > Thanks for your assistance thus far. I will keep looking for something to > fix this. > > LukeK Tell me something: Does FreeBSD boot? It seems to me Win2k is somehow broken but, if FreeBSD can boot then you can read the NTFS slice, therefore you can make a backup of your data storesd in Win2k slice. mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt will mount slice 1 of ATA disk 0 if it contains an NTFS file system.
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