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Date:      Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:33:27 +0200
From:      dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: MBR problem with FreeBSD 5.3 beta
Message-ID:  <20040906103327.GA21151@nagual.st>
In-Reply-To: <BAY18-F2qw3JPIEPIcA000a3024@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY18-F2qw3JPIEPIcA000a3024@hotmail.com>

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On 06 Sep Pedro n/a wrote:
> In the first time I rebooted my computer, after I've finished the 
> installation of this version, my motherboard started to beep and I didn't 
> know what to do.
> After reseting the computer I realized that I could no longer "boot" my 
> Windows. I did selected it from BootMng and it gave no response. Even 
> though I tried to use FDISK /MBR to rewrite the MBR, all my effords were in 
> vain and I couldn't start windows again.
> Recently I've reinstalled an old release version (trustworthy) but windows 
> still unable to boot.
> Does anyone know anything that  could be helpful?

I experienced the same thing w/ beta-2
Just *before* putting an image back I discovered that beta-2 had
*changed* the LBA setting of my harddrive to another value.
Putting this back (manualy forcing the bios into using LBA), my windows
came back on.. Pfftt..

Def not a nice thing of beta-2 ;-(

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