"NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install

[Chris Laverdure]

I had this exact same issue, but it was predictable -- I gather that it
happens to a lot of people, altough I'm not sure why it happens. 

I installed Windows XP.
Installed FreeBSD.
Windows was unable to boot.
Boot Windows XP
console
fixboot
Boot FreeBSD CD.
Reinstall FreeBSD bootloader.

Now I have have babies in either OS. :p

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 14:30, Mayo Jordanov wrote:
> You could also try BootPart (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) which
> should be able to either repair the nt loader or be able to figure out
> what's on which partition and change your boot.ini appropriately. (At
> least it used to be able to do that back when I used it)
> 
> m
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 06:46, Steve Hodgson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 16:58, Andrew Boothman wrote:
> > > Quoting Lucas Holt <luke at foolishgames.com>:
> > > > It probably is.  You need to put in the win 2k CD and do a repair on
> > > > your windows install.. unfortunetely this may screw up your freebsd
> > > > install.
> > > >
> > > > On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 05:58  AM, Andrew Boothman wrote:
> > > > > Hi!
> > > > >
> > > > > I've just installed 5-RELEASE, and I asked for the FreeBSD Boot
> > > > > Manager to be installed on both my HDDs.
> > > > >
> > > > > When the machine boots I'm given options for :
> > > > >
> > > > > F1 - DOS
> > > > > F5 - Drive 2
> > > > >
> > > > > Hitting F5 takes me to a second menu, where I can boot FreeBSD no
> > > > > problem. My problem is that Win2k will no longer boot.... Hitting F1
> > > > > displays a message that, "NTLDR is missing". I've tried all the repair
> > > > >
> > > > > options on the Win2k setup disc to no avail I think.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm sorry this isn't directly FreeBSD related, but I really hope my
> > > > > Win2k installation isn't hosed.
> > >
> > > Thanks for replying!
> > >
> > > I can't understand how the 5.x boot manager has managed to break my windows
> > > boot, i've never had any trouble under 3.x or 4.x, both of which played
> > > with windows perfectly nicely.
> > >
> > > I think i've tried all of the various repair options on the Win2k CD,
> > > including getting it to do a fresh installation into a different folder
> > > (c:\tempwin), but even that failed with the "NTLDR missing" message!
> > > However you no longer get the booteasy (F1.... F2) menu anymore, so Windows
> > > must have rewritten something. It still doesn't explain why Win2k still
> > > won't boot.
> > >
> > > I'm running out of ideas and I *really* don't want to have to reformat my
> > > windows drive!
> > >
> > > Other than this (fairly major) problem, my 5.0 installation went really
> > > well, even ACPI seems to be working perfectly and I even found a KLD to
> > > support my on- board sound card! :)
> > >
> > > I really want to get windows booting again so I can continue to play with
> > > 5.0 without worrying...
> > >
> > > Any help is much appricated!
> > >
> > It could well be that windows has become confused about the partition 
> > numbering. the important file is c:\boot.ini. It will have a line like...
> > 
> > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows" /fastdetect
> > 
> > I can't recall what all the numbers mean and IIRC documentation is slightly 
> > scant, but try changing the numbers, in particular the partition() part and 
> > see if that helps. Since you can't boot windows its not obvious how to edit 
> > the file, recovery console or knoppix are the two methods i would try.
> > 
> > Steve
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