Subject: Re: dualbooting WinXP with NetBSD
To: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
From: felix zaslavskiy <felix@students.poly.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/03/2003 11:51:34
On 03 Aug 2003 10:51:18 -0400
"Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 19:07, felix zaslavskiy wrote:
> > I stalled NebBSD-current on a machine that already had WinXP installed.
> >
> > WinXP Pro was installed on FAT32 on partition1 while NetBSD got
> > installed on partition2
> >
> > I installed the NetBSD bootloader and boostmeny.
> > I can mount the FAT32 partition from NetBSD.
> > I run fsck on it and it was clean.
> >
> > I can also boot to NetBSD fine but the troubles start when trying to
> > boot to WinXP.
> >
> > WinXP start to load and then goes to a blue screen and the mouse appears
> > with teh Windows Logo and then nothing it just sits there does not go
> > into the login screen.
>
> In order to help, we need you to paste the output of fdisk(8) and
> disklabel(8). Boot off install media and manually copy it if you have
> to.
I got the info from running the working installed netbsd.
Here is the output:
Disk: /dev/rwd0d
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 60058656
BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1023, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 60058656
Partition table:
0: Primary DOS with 32 bit FAT - LBA (sysid 12)
bootmenu: Windows
start 63, size 40965687 (20003 MB, Cyls 0/1/1-2550), Active
beg: cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1
end: cylinder 1022, head 254, sector 63
1: NetBSD (sysid 169)
bootmenu: NetBSD
start 40965750, size 19092906 (9323 MB, Cyls 2550-3738/122/1)
beg: cylinder 1022, head 254, sector 63
end: cylinder 1022, head 254, sector 63
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>
Bootselector enabled, timeout 5 seconds.
# /dev/rwd0d:
type: unknown
disk: mydisk
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16383
total sectors: 60058656
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
drivedata: 0
16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
a: 18829440 40965750 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 40640*- 59320*)
b: 263466 59795190 swap # (Cyl. 59320*- 59581)
c: 19092906 40965750 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 40640*- 59581)
d: 60058656 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 59581)
e: 40965687 63 MSDOS # (Cyl. 0*- 40640*)
>
> >
> > Is anyone familiar with this problem ? I am puzzled because since NetBSD
> > did not touch windows partition what can be the problem ?
> --
>
> Thanks,
> -Brian
>
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