Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:13:43 +0100 From: "Ghulam Dastgir" <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FBSD no longer bootable Message-ID: <000701bf1ba4$acf83f40$1b6e38d4@ghulam>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BF1BAC.F42EDCE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In short I can no longer boot my PC into FreeBSD. Previously I'd been = using FBSD happily as part of a dual boot system sharing the hard-disk = with Windows 95. The dual mechaninsm was provided by FBSD's booteasy = boot manager. The problem occured when Windows got corrupted and I had to reinstall = Windows. So now Windows is OK but I can't access the separate FBSD = partition, which I now still exists because the DOS fdisk utility still = shows it is there. but now fbsd appears before Windows on the harddrive, = or at least this is what dos fdisk says. Any ideas on how I can recover my fbsd. Is it because Windows has = overwritten the Master Boot Record? Or will it be the dreaded TOTAL = system reinstall? Thanks, Ghulam ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BF1BAC.F42EDCE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>In short I can no longer boot my PC = into=20 FreeBSD. Previously I'd been using FBSD happily as part of a dual boot = system=20 sharing the hard-disk with Windows 95. The dual mechaninsm was provided = by=20 FBSD's booteasy boot manager.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>The problem occured when Windows got = corrupted=20 and I had to reinstall Windows. So now Windows is OK but I can't access = the=20 separate FBSD partition, which I now still exists because the DOS fdisk = utility=20 still shows it is there. but now fbsd appears before Windows on the = harddrive,=20 or at least this is what dos fdisk says.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Any ideas on how I can recover my = fbsd. Is it=20 because Windows has overwritten the Master Boot Record? Or will it be = the=20 dreaded TOTAL system reinstall?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Ghulam</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BF1BAC.F42EDCE0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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