Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:27:25 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) Cc: Andrew Boothman <A.J.Boothman@sms.ed.ac.uk>, Matt Smith <matt@forsetti.com>, Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install Message-ID: <200302261927.LAA07522@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:22:00 PST." <15964.63416.595988.941311@rosebud.alerce.com>
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hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that it's not operator error on my part, since it
> happened several times. I suspect that there aren't that many people
> playing with 5.0 that don't install the standard boot stuff, and so
> that path isn't exercised too much.
I installed 5.0 with the booteasy MBR on my IBM laptop, and it
worked fine. The problem I had was that *ANY* MBR-based boot program
interfered with IBM's special "product recovery" software, and so I
instead decided to just use Win2K/XP's boot mechanism to boot FreeBSD
(as I explained in my previous message).
[ Yes, FreeBSD and XP (in my case) would still have worked if I kept
booteasy, but I really wanted to keep IBM's product recovery software,
and so I switched to using 2K/XP's method. In hindsight, that's
probably the best approach, as it doesn't require any MBR changes or
boot floppies/CDs. ]
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Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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