Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:14:39 +1000 From: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: "'Darryl Okahata'" <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, "'Lamont Granquist'" <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Recovering from clobbered boot manager? Message-ID: <001501c15854$9d492c00$3ec801ca@warhawk> In-Reply-To: <200110190543.WAA03350@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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Wouldn't using OS-BS (fbsd disc one\tools) work with win2k? That's what I used to dual boot all my win9x machines... > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Darryl Okahata > Sent: Friday, 19 October 2001 3:43 PM > To: Lamont Granquist > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Recovering from clobbered boot manager? > > > Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> wrote: > > > Okay, the difficulty though is that I had clobbered my boot manager > > with a Win2K install (dual-booting) and the CDROM doesn't > give you the > > boot0cfg command. I had to install onto a 2nd hard drive and then > > boot into that instance of FreeBSD and use boot0cfg from > there. It'd > > be nice to have the option of doing that from the CDROM. > > Uh, I did just that (blew away my dual-boot > FreeBSD/Win2K boot sector by reinstalling win2k after being > an Uber-Idiot), which is how I painfully discovered the lack > of pointers to boot0cfg. > > [ I actually hex dumped the boot sector, read the boot0 asm code, and > binary-edited the boot sector to enable LBA, before I discovered the > existence of boot0cfg, which would have made my life MUCH > easier .... > ;-( ] > > The easiest solution is to boot the live filesystem > CDROM (you did > *buy* the four-disk set, right?), use fdisk to restore the > boot sector, and then run boot0cfg. Everything you need is > on the bootable live filesystem CDROM. Just make sure you > use /boot/boot0 as the boot sector, and not /boot/mbr (the default). > > -- > Darryl Okahata > darrylo@soco.agilent.com > > DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and > does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of > Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have > been following him all day. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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