From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 25 15:11:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA08349 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 May 1995 12:49:02 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA08343 for ; Thu, 25 May 1995 12:49:01 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id MAA27629; Thu, 25 May 1995 12:48:42 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199505251948.MAA27629@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: fdisk problem - any suggestions To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey) Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 12:48:41 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505251545.RAA29534@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at May 25, 95 05:45:08 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1063 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Hi folks, > I've painted myself into a corner, & would welcome suggestions how to > get out :-) > > I used to have a 50M DOS partition on my root partition, but it was corrupt, > & fdisk didnt understand it, so i reinstalled the drive, & reduced the 50M > to 20M too :-), > I used DOS fdisk to install a C:, then Freebsd fdisk to & disklabel > using both rsd0c & rsd0d as I recall, > (I suspect maybe i should have not done 0d) .. > Now I have a DOS partition I can mount under Freebsd, > I can even see the C: dos thing if i boot from a dos flopppy, > but if i try to boot off the hard disc it always runs freebsd, > regardless of whether I mark freebsd or dos as active with fdisk. > > Only thing I can think of now is to install that os-bs thing (from wherever) you've been caught be a little trap I think.... :) you've put a disklable on d? (must be non slice code) the disklable contains a dummy MBR you've then replaced that MBR (with FreeBSD boot code) with a DOS MBR? just a possibility..... > > Any other suggestions ? > > Julian S >