Cannot get Boot Manager launch WinXPsp2
dario.s...@fastwebnet.it
I've always been using MS Windows. Even if I've very little experience wi=
th
Unix-like systems, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3, because I want to learn it=
and see if I can use it for some tasks.
Since, in any case, I can't abandon Windows (which I'm so used to...), I
installed the FreeBSD Boot Manager. After the installation process I'm no=
t
able to launch Windows any more.
After the power-on self test, what I suppose to be the boot manager appea=
rs:
F1 ??
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 1
Default: F2
If I'm not making mistakes, F5 will look for a boot manager on the other
hard disk (I have ad0 with both OSes, and ad1), so F1 should start Window=
s.
But I get this error message:
Errore di lettura da disco
Premere CTRL+ALT+CANC per riavviare
which means:
Disk read error
Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot
Which is likely to be Windows' loader complaining for something unknown t=
o
me.
What did I mistake? How can I get both OSes to boot as expected?
FreeBSD boots correctly, so I tried to make sysinstall reinstall the boot=
manager, but it complains:
ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!
Disk partition write returned an error status!
Please help me! I need Windows working as soon as possible...
Just one more question: I have an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, which
has two ethernet devices. I got the Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet card s=
uccessfully
identified as sk0. Which module should I load to get the integrated MCP-T=
NVIDIA MAC fast ethernet card (which should be part of the nForce2 chipse=
t,
I think) working?
Thank you!
-Dario
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Pablo Mora
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Dario
and boot sector I still had errors (regarding filesystem corruption...).
I've solved the problem by reinstalling Windows, and then configuring
Windows' own booter to launch FreeBSD when requested, as described
somewhere in the Internet.
I think that's the easiest and safest way to dual-boot Windows and
FreeBSD, at least for beginners like me. I wish I had found some mention
in the installation guide...
I had no time to try GAG, but thanks for helping anyway! :)
-Dario
Pablo Mora:
>Test with GAG.
>http://gag.sourceforge.net/
>
Original message:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've always been using MS Windows. Even if I've very little experience with
>> Unix-like systems, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3, because I want to learn it
>> and see if I can use it for some tasks.
>>
>> Since, in any case, I can't abandon Windows (which I'm so used to...), I
>> installed the FreeBSD Boot Manager. After the installation process I'm not
>> able to launch Windows any more.
>>
>> After the power-on self test, what I suppose to be the boot manager appears:
>> F1 ??
>> F2 FreeBSD
>> F5 Drive 1
>> Default: F2
>>
>> If I'm not making mistakes, F5 will look for a boot manager on the other
>> hard disk (I have ad0 with both OSes, and ad1), so F1 should start Windows.
>> But I get this error message:
>> Errore di lettura da disco
>> Premere CTRL+ALT+CANC per riavviare
>> which means:
>> Disk read error
>> Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot
>> Which is likely to be Windows' loader complaining for something unknown to
>> me.
>>
>> What did I mistake? How can I get both OSes to boot as expected?
>> FreeBSD boots correctly, so I tried to make sysinstall reinstall the boot
>> manager, but it complains:
>> ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!
>> Disk partition write returned an error status!
>>
>> Please help me! I need Windows working as soon as possible...
>>
>> Just one more question: I have an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, which
>> has two ethernet devices. I got the Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet card successfully
>> identified as sk0. Which module should I load to get the integrated MCP-T
>> NVIDIA MAC fast ethernet card (which should be part of the nForce2 chipset,
>> I think) working?
>>
>> Thank you!
>> -Dario
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charlie pelletier
I just recently got my FreeBSD system back up and running. Due to
circumstances beyond my control (for now), I have to get it connected
utilizing ICS in Windows XP. I am having some problem getting it to see
the outside world.
My setup:
Windows XP (the host computer)
Local Area Connection set for ICS: 192.168.0.1
Wireless Network Connection: 192.168.1.103
Linksys Wireless Router (WRT54G): 192.168.1.1
FreeBSD (the client)
dc0 LAN: 192.168.0.60
/etc/resolv.conf
domain verizon.net
nameserver 192.168.0.1
nameserver 4.2.2.1
nameserver 4.2.2.2
/etc/rc.conf
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Jul 17 11:22:27 2006
# Created: Mon Jul 17 11:22:27 2006
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
kern_securelevel_enable="NO"
linux_enable="YES"
moused_enable="NO"
moused_type="auto"
saver="rain"
sendmail_enable="YES"
sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
samba_enable="YES"
hostname="plato"
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Jul 24 14:28:48 2006
ifconfig_dc0="inet 192.168.0.60 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
-------------------
netstat -rn:
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 lo0
192.168.0 link#1 UC 1 0 dc0
192.168.0.1 00:13:20:a6:44:4a UHLW 1 437 dc0 1042
I can ping the XP Local Area Connection from BSD and vice-versa. I
cannot, however, ping the linksys router or anything on the outside.
Where have I gone wrong and what do I need to do to fix this? I don't
remember having these problems when I did the same w/ Windows 2000 about
2 years ago but then again, maybe I chose to forget those problems.
Thanks for any help!