On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:47:55 +0930 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Kris Moore wrote: > > We've released our 1.4 BETA of PC-BSD this week, and one of the > > issues which has come up is the broken support for dual-booting with > > a Vista system. Apparently the FreeBSD boot loader messes up some of > > Vista's boot process. Here's what one of our users tracked it down > > to: > > > > ..................................................................... > >.. If a user wises to re size the Vista partition then dual boot the > > user maybe surprised to find Vista will fail to boot from the BSD > > boot loader with the following error message: > > > > "The file /Windows/system32/winload.exe can not be found or is > > corrupt." > > > > This is due to the BSD boot loader overwriting a UUID in the MBR the > > Vista OS uses to boot for some reason as it was not in the Beta or > > the RC. > > .....................................................................
> I think this is similar to the signature bytes Windows XP uses to > remember which disk is which. > I was bitten recently when I reinstalled XP on my laptop - the installer > picked E: (NFI why since it was the first partition on the disk) and > after I reinstalled the FreeBSD MBR it decided it hadn't seen the disk > before and assigned it 'C' and so the swapfile location was invalid > which means you can't login (even in safe mode).. > I think the solution would be to ensure the 4 bytes it uses are > preserved by boot0cfg (although I think sysinstall would need > modification too), this page shows the bytes in question.. > http://www.multibooters.co.uk/mbr.html > I dunno if boot0 has 4 bytes to spare tho :( Seems that I've seen patches for 6.1 (the text is in russian though): http://groups.google.ru/group/fido7.ru.unix.bsd/browse_thread/thread/670c189b1957e12e/f0cb67c7ad4d890f?lnk=st&q=grosbein+group%3Afido7.ru.unix.bsd+NT+Drive+Serial+Number&rnum=1&hl=ru# WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
