Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:19:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Subject: Help. PLEASE, on repairing mu Multi-Boot machine (2nd request) Message-ID: <200006140119.SAA03639@netcom.com>
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First ler me apologize, if you have seen this before. I tried to post on this yesterday, and I never did see the post mysef. Strnagely, i did recieve 1 reply, but it was not enough to solve my problem, which is quite critical. I have an HP Omnibook, which I had configrued to triple boot (FreeBSD 3.4 Stable, Windows NT, Windows 95). I have software that I am required to run on this machine for work, which only runs under M$ OS's. Well. It dwaned on me that I had not needed to boot inot Windows 95 for quite some time, and I was runing out of space on my FreeBD partition, so I decided to delete the Windows 95 FAT partition, and reuse it as /usr in FreeBSD. Unfortunately the result of my bungling, is that I can only boot into FreeBSD. Hee is the situation. Rhe machine has an 8G hard drive, I had partitoned this as folows: Part. Type. ---- ---- 1 FAT Windows 95 2 HFS FreeBSD 3 FAT Windows NT 4 FAT (Data) each partition was about 2G. Normally on bootup I was presented with the folowing: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD F3 DOS F4 DOS Now only the first 2 really worked, if I took choice 1 I wnet inot a menu that allowed me to sselect between NI, NT in faile safe mode, or 95 (The NT Bootloader?). I was in both the disk parttion editior, and the disk slice editor as I munged this up. Presently I am only presented with: F2 FreeBSD F3 DOS F4 DOS Here is what the Disklabel editor shows: Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- wd0s2a <none> 32MB * wd0s2b swap 73MB SWAP wd0s2e <none> 30MB * wd0s2f <none> 1858MB * wd0s3 <none> 1993MB DOS wd0s4 <none> 1779MB DOS Notice that there is no wds1 ( The formere Win 95 partition). Here is what the disk slice editor shows: Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 4188240 4188239 - 6 unused 0 4188240 4082400 8270639 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C 8270640 4082400 12353039 wd0s3 2 fat 6 12353040 3643920 15996959 wd0s4 2 fat 6 > 15996960 10080 16007039 - 6 unused 0 > remeber there being an addationl partition 0f 63 blocks size, at the begining of the disk when I started this, but I cannot figure out how to recreate it. I assume that this is where the NT bootloader lived, and that the FreeBSD bootloader is smart enough to detect the presence/ansence of this. How can I reinstall this? I desprately need to make this work, as the alternative is to totally reinstall everyting on the machien, and the corporate powers that be may use this as an excuse to make me tow the line, and install NT only so that it can "supported" Please help. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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