Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 23:08:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Coleman <chris@crow.ctc.edu> To: Arabinda Bose <axb00@arrowsmith.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBsd.org, questions@FreeBsd.org, abose@sceptre.arrowsmith.com Subject: Re: Problem during FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950814212745.530A-100000@crow.ctc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508141430.HAA18594@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
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Dos, (hate to stoop so low) has an undocumented feature on fdisk. Fdisk /bootmgr (I think i have the switch right) will fix the problem you are having with the boot sector of you disk. it will rewrite your bootmanager. I hope this works for you. Chris Coleman Chris@crow.ctc.edu Lost in Space and Loving it. On Mon, 14 Aug 1995, Arabinda Bose wrote: > Hi, > I have a FreeBSD 2.0, released in Jan 1994. I had DOS/WINDOWS > installed on my Pentium 90MHZ and I blew up my hard disk > boot code during the installation of Free BSD. Could anyone > please help. > > I partitioned my hard disk for DOS (400 Meg) and kept 412 Meg > for BSD. I installed the DOS on the machine first and then > started installing FreeBSD from the boot diskette. > I went through the partioning of file systems fine, allocated > swap space on 'b' and fixed the mount points for /, /usr, etc > and did "Proceed". It said, this will erase your hard disk, > proceed Y/N, I did a Yes and then it asked to reboot. After > the reboot, it came up with two options > F1 DOS > F2 FreeBSD > Nothing happened when I press F1 or F2. > > I deleted the BSD and tried to install DOS again but it gave the > similar prompt(F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD) during the reboot. I guess my > boot record on the hard disk has got corrupted. Can you tell me > how to get back again if I want to change my boot program on the > harddrive ? > > I tried to format the "C" drive, it didn't help. > > Thanks in advane > > -- Arabinda Bose >
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