Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice"

[Laurens Timmermans]

Kent Stewart schreef:
> On Saturday 21 October 2006 11:19, Laurens Timmermans wrote:
>> Kent Stewart schreef:
>>> On Saturday 21 October 2006 09:07, Laurens Timmermans wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with ...
>>> That is very similar to what I am using right now on this computer
>>> and 3 others. What does your boot.ini look like.
>>>
>>> Kent
>> My boot.ini looks like this:
>>
>> [boot loader]
>> timeout=5
>> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
>> [operating systems]
>> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
>> Professinal" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
>> c:\boot1="FreeBSD"
>>
> 
> The only difference is I called it bootsect.bsd to make it look like 
> everything else. Could you have somehow copied it badly. I always have 
> a machine running and did a binary ftp to the local machine and then 
> renamed to to the *.bsd.
> 
> Kent
> 

I don't see what could have gone wrong with the copying. I tried a 
couple of times.

Tore Lund schreef:
 > Laurens Timmermans wrote:
 >> Hi,
 >>
 >> I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD ...
 >
 > I found a thread that may or may not be relevant - this message in
 > particular:
 >
 > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2005-09/0177.html
 >
 > Start of thread:
 >
 > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2005-09/0079.html

Thank you for that link, the problem described there is in a way similar 
to mine. Unfortunately the problem was fixed by updating the bios, and i 
already have the latest version (A04) for my laptop (Dell Precision M70).