Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 11:34:09 +0900 From: "lukek" <lukek@meibin.net> To: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm>, "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot Message-ID: <003301c327e6$47a93a20$300aa8c0@yujo> References: <007501c3271d$26c5fbf0$080aa8c0@yujo> <oprp1522t80cf2rk@fastmail.fm> <001c01c327d2$70ad0af0$300aa8c0@yujo> <oprp2bi7xa0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> <002701c327d7$2241dee0$300aa8c0@yujo> <oprp2g6pq50cf2rk@fastmail.fm>
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You are absolutely correct during the installation process I chose to have FreeBSD install it's own boot loader just as I had a number of times before with older versions but there must be a subtle difference between the older versions and the latest. The disk is showing that the NTFS partition is active ( I have used a number of tools to check on this ) but no cigar. Thanks for your assistance thus far. I will keep looking for something to fix this. LukeK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "lukek" <lukek@meibin.net>; "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: 2003年6月1日 11:29 Subject: Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot > On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 09:45:44 +0900, lukek <lukek@meibin.net> wrote: > > > OK thanks for the offer of assistance. The machine in question has two > > drives ad0 and ad1. On ad0 there was a native NTFS partition with Win2K > > installed. On a separate partion I had Redhat. I decided to get rid of > > the > > redhat installation and use FreeBSD again. So I installed > > FreeBSD-5.0Release. It had its way with the MBR and now Win2K cannot > > boot. > > I kind of doubt FreeBSD-5 "had its way with the MBR," or at least a FreeBSD > installation has never done anything to the MBR I haven't told it to > (correctly or mistakenly;). See whether the Win2K partition is set active. > > > I > > cannot use the recovery option because I cannot for the life of me > > remember > > the admin passwd. > > Doh! indeed. Then if setting the Win2K partition active doesn't work, I'm > out of better options than your suggestion to do a fresh install and mount > the old Win2K partition from there. But I'm no guru. Anyone else have a > suggestion? > > Jud >
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