Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:00:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Miller <joup@bigfoot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: help- MBR/booteasy problem Message-ID: <20020708224055.M36637-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu>
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Hi All, I have a problem and I'm in over my head. I tried using win2k's bootloader to dual boot win2k and FreeBSD 4.6. BSD is on disk 1, win2k is on disk 2. I've been using FreeBSD for a year now, win2k was more recent-- both worked, but win2k wouldn't boot after booteasy. To switch from one to the other, I would go into my BIOS and change the boot device ordering (1st for w2k, 2nd for FBSD). All was well. Then I tried following the instructions in the faq at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER but I was confused and probably screwed things up. I believe I installed the freebsd bootmanager onto both disks using /sysinstall's Fdisk. I then tried to copy /boot/boot0 to my win2k's partition as bootsect.bsd (ie, from one hard drive to another). Since them, win2k boots up fine, and even includes the bootloader for booting into freebsd-- but when I choose the freebsd option it simply prints "boot error" and reboots. When I go into the BIOS to select for FreeBSD, it loads a screen much like Booteasy, but instead of a default like F1, it has F and then a character that looks like a music note. Pressing any other F-key than F5 fails, and F5 just prints another set of what booteasy printed before-- F1 for freeBSD, F5 for disk0, and a default of F-music_note. I've since tried booting into my install CDROM and reinstalling the bootmanager from the Configure|Fdisk tool, but that doesn't change anything. Is there any way I can salvage the drive without reinstalling and losing all my data? Thanks, Mark Miller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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