Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice"

[Tore Lund]

Laurens Timmermans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am trying to get a double boot system on my laptop with FreeBSD and 
> Windows XP. I have tried this before using NTLOADER on my desktop-pc (by 
> following the directions in the faq) and it works like a charm, but not 
> on my laptop...
> I installed FreeBSD, copied /boot/boot1 to a usb-stick, set my 
> windows-slice active and added a freebsd-entry to my boot.ini.
> When i boot i get the ntloader-menu, it boots xp just fine but when i 
> choose FreeBSD i get "invalid slice". I can get back into my 
> freebsd-install by setting it's slice active again (using boot/rescue-cd).
> I am using FreeBSD 6.2-beta2 (because of support for my pentium M).

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
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    Tore