Subject: Re: netbsd and winxp dual booting
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: felix zaslavskiy <felix@students.poly.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/17/2003 21:45:27
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:19:12 +0200
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:23:46PM +0000, felix zaslavskiy wrote:
> > I run into a bit of a problme.
> > 
> > I have winXP on partition-0 after which i installed netbsd-current on partition-1. I let netbsd overwrite the mbr and didnt save the one previously there. I also let netbsd place the bootmenu.
> > 
> > Ever since my winXP refuses to boot strangely freezing up after a minute with a blue screen.
> > 
> > My question is has anyone been successful to boot winXP with the netbsd bootloader ?
> 
> Yes, I did.
> I guess you double-checked that your partitions don't overlap ?
> 

Well the partitions dont overlap.
I used grub from the floppy disk to book the windows partition. Its the same behaviour. 
So its got to be that the partition table is not right or windows filesystem got corrupted somehow.

> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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