I attempted to set up a notebook with a single drive to dual-boot and
now I am having a problem booting into XP. Here's the story:
I split a notebook's hard drive in half (10GB each half) and installed
XP (NTFS) on the first parition. I installed FreeBSD 4.7-Release on the
second half. I was originally unable to boot FreeBSD, but this was
because I did not select a boot manager during the install phase. I
went back into /stand/sysintall and installed the FreeBSD boot loader.
Upon a reboot, I was presented with the
F1 ??
F2 FreeBSD
menu and was able to boot either OS without any problems. Yeah. I
thought that it would be fun to try GRUB, so I did the following:
1. Built the GRUB port
2. Made the directory /boot/grub and moved the stage1, stage2, and
*stage1_5 files there from /usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd
3. I created a menu.lst file under /boot/grub with the following in it:
(only relevant sections shown)
title FreeBSD
root (hd0,1,a)
kernel /boot/loader
title WinXP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
4. I created a GRUB boot floppy per the instructions in the manual,
rebooted, and performed the following steps:
grub find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,1,a)
grub root (hd0,1,a)
Filesystem type is ffs, partition type 0xa5
grub setup (hd0,0)
Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... yes
Checking if /boot/grub/stage2 exists... yes
Checking if /boot/grub/ffs_stage1_5 exists... yes
Running embed /boot/grub/ffs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)... failed (this is not
fatal)
Running embed /boot/grub/ffs_stage1_5 (hd0,1,a)... failed (this is
not fatal)
Running install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /boot/grub/stage2 p
/boot/grub/menu.lst ... Succeeded
Done.
grub reboot
I wasn't sure what to think of the warnings, so I proceeded. After the
reboot, I got the same F1, F2 menu that I started with.
5. I used my XP CD to repair the MBR thinking that it was the problem.
I ran fixmbr and rebooted.
Upon the reboot, I got the GRUB menu. Selecting the FreeBSD option
worked fine, but selecting WinXP returned me to the menu. I was able to
see a very quick error message saying, Filesystem type unknown,
partition type 0x7 before the menu was redrawn.
6. I rebooted using the GRUB boot floppy, and repeated step 4. This
time, I substituted setup(hd0) for (hd0,0). Does that make a difference?
I got the same behavior as before - FreeBSD boots, XP does not. I tried
writing a new MBR once again, issuing commands from the GRUB prompt,
changing root to rootnoverify in the WinXP commands. No good.
Any suggestions as to where I went wrong and how I can get my WinXP
install back or is it too late for me? If it is too late, should I be
able to reinstall XP on the first partition and maintain my FreeBSD
install on the second?
Thanks,
Aron
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Aron J. Silverton
Senior Staff Research Engineer
Motorola Laboratories, Networks and Infrastructure Research
Motorola, Inc.
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