Good evening! Last night, I installed FreeBSD (8.0-RELEASE-i386) for the first time on my desktop at home (before this, I've always used Gentoo Linux). So far, it's been pretty nice and simple to get everything up and running including Xorg, Xfce4, ntfs-3g, etc. /dev/ad4 is the only hdd I currently have, /dev/ad4s1 is WinXP (installed before FBSD), and /dev/ad4s2{a,b} are FBSD (/ and swap, respectively).
During the installation, I chose to use the FBSD boot manager. This recognized the existence of my Windows XP partition (exists solely for games). However, it wouldn't boot, saying "A disk read error occurred".
My first thought was that it's a minor issue with the FBSD bootloader, so I installed grub. Grub boots FBSD without issue, but WinXP still doesn't boot. I get the error "Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7". For reference, here's my menu.lst (note that root vs rootnoverify made no difference):
I've found a few remarks from people having similar issues elsewhere, but they always seem to be a different problem or unresolved.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong here? I'm sure I must be missing something big. Thank you in advance.
During the installation, I chose to use the FBSD boot manager. This recognized the existence of my Windows XP partition (exists solely for games). However, it wouldn't boot, saying "A disk read error occurred".
My first thought was that it's a minor issue with the FBSD bootloader, so I installed grub. Grub boots FBSD without issue, but WinXP still doesn't boot. I get the error "Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7". For reference, here's my menu.lst (note that root vs rootnoverify made no difference):
Code:
title FreeBSD
root (hd0,1,a)
kernel /boot/loader
title Windows XP
#root (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot
I've found a few remarks from people having similar issues elsewhere, but they always seem to be a different problem or unresolved.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong here? I'm sure I must be missing something big. Thank you in advance.