Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-29 Thread Kent Hauser
Sorry I was less than clear. I've been running XP + FreeBSD dual boot forever. After installing 7.2 (rebuilding from source), the XP partition wouldn't boot. When I selected F1 at the boot menu, the system just hung. I booted from an old 6.2 install disk I had around selected Custom/Partition

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Kent Hauser wrote: Sorry I was less than clear. I've been running XP + FreeBSD dual boot forever. After installing 7.2 (rebuilding from source), the XP partition wouldn't boot. When I selected F1 at the boot menu, the system just hung. I booted from an old 6.2 install disk I had around

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-28 Thread Graham Bentley
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.

7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-27 Thread KENT HAUSER
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

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Kent You're going to need to provide a bit more detail on the problem. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:14 PM, KENT HAUSER k...@khauser.net wrote: 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

7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-15 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I downloaded the DVD version of 7.2 Release and did a minimum install as usual before customizing and for the first time in years FreeBSD installer has done something odd to my XP boot loader (whatever is responisble?) I know I'm likely to be told to go to a Windows forum but wondered if