Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 10:44:00 +0300 From: =?koi8-r?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA=20=F7=2E=20=EF=CC=C5=CA=CE=C9=CB?= (Andy V. Oleynik) <andyo@prime.net.ua> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken FAT FS During Install Message-ID: <376B4A40.8406EB0E@prime.net.ua> References: <199906190204.WAA14995@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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I dont know will it help in ur case. Try to use WIN95 "sys" utility to restore boot record for WIN partition. "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > I recently installed 3.2 on a machine that had been running only > Win95. The machine is basically a test client for some networking > experiments. Since many/most clients on an operational system will be > Win-boxes, I figured I'd preserve a working Win95 partition to run > tests from (I usually nuke whole disks when I get my paws on an old > machine at the office). > > However, my Win95/DOS partition looks broken in someway. The problem > is that it will not boot. I get a 'Invalid system disk' (or the like) > error when I try to boot off of DOS (F1 from BootEasy). I can mount > the DOS partition just fine when FreeBSD is running. I tossed in a > MS-DOS bootable floppy, and I could read C: when I booted off of it. > > The fdisk output from the BSD OS is, > > ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=621 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=621 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) > start 63, size 830529 (405 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 205/ sector 63/ head 63 > The data for partition 2 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 830592, size 1673280 (817 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 206/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 620/ sector 63/ head 63 > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 4 is: > <UNUSED> > > When I booted the DOS floppy and ran FDISK.EXE from there, I got the > same information. > > I used the PRESIZER.EXE off of a FreeBSD CDROM (a home-built > 3.1-RELEASE CD) to shrink down that DOS partition from originally > taking the whole disk. > > Any ideas what may be wrong, how to find the problem, or how to fix > it? I'd like to have a Win95 client to inflict evil experiments on. > > Thanks for any help. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Andy V. Oleynik (When U aim for perfection, U discover it's a moving target ö80) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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