Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:21:15 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Russell A. Khurshudian" <russell_k@acedsl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restoring boot manager Message-ID: <15349.48011.574498.508596@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <26132514@toto.iv>
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Russell A. Khurshudian <russell_k@acedsl.com> types: > How would i restore the FBSD boot manager after a win2k pro installation? I > tried running bootinst.exe boot.bin at the MS-DOS prompt but it gave me a > message > "An application has attempted to directly access the hard disk, which cannot > be supported. This may cause the application to function incorrectly." After > clicking ignore i proceeded and got the following message: "Error 128 > reading boot record from disk 0". Any suggestions? Hopefully, you can get XP to tag the FreeBSD partition as the active partition so that will boot. If not, you'll have to boot FreeBSD from a floppy. Having done so, you can use boot0cfg to reinstall the FreeBSD boot manager. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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