Dualboot Ntloader "invalid slice"

[Kent Stewart]

On Sunday 22 October 2006 05:45, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:41, Laurens Timmermans wrote:
> > Kent Stewart schreef:
> > > Well "copy" will sometimes copy as asci instead of binary. You
> > > have /a and /b to force one type or the other.
> > >
> > > Xcopy, I think, always copies binary. I think a drag and drop
> > > does will also prefer to copy as binary.
> > >
> > > Kent
> >
> > I tried the following:
> >
> > "bsdlabel -B ad0s3"
> > according to the manual this should recreate boot1 and boot2 ? I
> > made a backup of boot1 but the above command does not recreate
> > boot1. It only does something with /boot/boot. So i restored the
> > backup of boot1, copied the first 512 bytes of /boot/boot to a
> > usb-stick using dd. I booted back into windows and used xcopy to
> > copy the boot1-file to my c:.
> >
> > But still i get "Invalid slice"
>
> The boot1 I use is created when you do the installworld and
> is /boot/boot1.
>
> When you are on the same HD as your Windows ntldr, that is all you
> need to use.
>

I went back to the source and it looks like RU recently updated boot1 (1 
Oct). The boot1 I use came from a 6.0 or 6.1 iso. I will try the boot1 
that my current 6-stable creates but I am still in the middle of doing 
a

portupgrade -rf libgpg-error

It still has a while to go :).

Kent

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