From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 25 22:23:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA29460 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 22:23:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA29455 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 22:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-131 [207.14.72.131]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA04606; Sun, 25 May 1997 20:19:39 -0800 Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 21:02:05 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Sean Eric Fagan cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Okay, I blew my boot blocks In-Reply-To: <199705260401.VAA11584@kithrup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 25 May 1997, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > >booteasy can be gotten via ftp (./tools? - i think) for DOS. > >you can run it and re-install it. or you can use your BSD boot.flp, > >and make some careful selections, and re-install a new MBR. > >(don't CHANGE anything! and don't SELECT anything other than a MBR!) > > Actually, it turns out the disk was totally hosed, as far as anything was > concerned. > > For example, NT, when I went to reinstall it, decided that my 1041MByte disk > has 2300MBytes free... :) > > I reformatted, and am reinstalling. *sigh* > > Sean. that's too bad! you shouldn't have had to do that! nothing will destroy your NT (except format/fdisk)! i'm sure if you played around you could have made it work. Linux has a good docs on bootstrapping, which i think is a good read for anyone dealing with multiple HD's/OS's ... check them out ... (how-to's or whatever!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------