Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:54:22 +0200 (CEST) From: abgoeree@uwnet.nl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help. PLEASE, on repairing mu Multi-Boot machine (2nd reques Message-ID: <200006140752.JAA05368@mars.uwnet.nl> In-Reply-To: <200006140119.SAA03639@netcom.com>
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Stan,
I believe your problem is to get NT working again?
(the reply on your previous message was about how to mount a NT
partition under FreeBSD).
If so, you are in a lot trouble but, here are some possible solutions.
The NT bootloader (in the mbr) keeps info on what to boot on the
first bootable partition, your win95 partition which you deleted.
Since this information is gone NT does not know how to boot.
What you can do is bring the first partition (or a portion of it) back
to FAT and then try to repair NT with a "emergency rescue floppy"
(you made one when you installed NT, didn't you?).
Don't forget to make the FAT partition bootable and be sure it's a
primary partition, otherwise things won't work.
The trick with the repair floppy should work although i never managed
to repair my NT bootloader with such a floppy ;-)
When you don't have a repair floppy or don't succeed to fix NT
somehow, i believe, there is just one thing to do: make the FAT
partition as described above and reinstall NT.
The NT setup program also has a repair function which you can use,
i'm not sure how to use it in this case i'm no NT expert.
Don't try anything of this before you made a backup of the NT
partition (you can mount it under freebsd and then copy the data to
some backup device). Don't forget you probably have too fix FreeBSD
after yo have fixed NT in this way. If you really have to reinstall
NT (and got the data of the existing NT partition) it's best to put
NT on the first parition (the former win95 partition) and make it a
NTFS partition.
Hope i could help you,
Andre
On 14-Jun-00 Stan Brown wrote:
> First ler me apologize, if you have seen this before. I tried
to
> post
> on this yesterday, and I never did see the post mysef.
Strnagely,
> i did
> recieve 1 reply, but it was not enough to solve my problem,
which
> is
> quite critical.
>
> I have an HP Omnibook, which I had configrued to triple boot
> (FreeBSD
> 3.4 Stable, Windows NT, Windows 95). I have software that I am
> required
> to run on this machine for work, which only runs under M$
OS's.
>
> Well. It dwaned on me that I had not needed to boot inot
Windows
> 95 for
> quite some time, and I was runing out of space on my FreeBD
> partition,
> so I decided to delete the Windows 95 FAT partition, and
reuse it
> as
> /usr in FreeBSD. Unfortunately the result of my bungling, is
that
> I can
> only boot into FreeBSD.
>
> Hee is the situation. Rhe machine has an 8G hard drive, I had
> partitoned this as folows:
>
> Part. Type.
> ---- ----
> 1 FAT Windows 95
> 2 HFS FreeBSD
> 3 FAT Windows NT
> 4 FAT (Data)
>
> each partition was about 2G. Normally on bootup I was
presented
> with
> the folowing:
>
> F1 DOS
> F2 FreeBSD
> F3 DOS
> F4 DOS
>
> Now only the first 2 really worked, if I took choice 1 I wnet
inot
> a
> menu that allowed me to sselect between NI, NT in faile safe
mode,
> or
> 95 (The NT Bootloader?).
>
> I was in both the disk parttion editior, and the disk slice
editor
> as I
> munged this up. Presently I am only presented with:
>
> F2 FreeBSD
> F3 DOS
> F4 DOS
>
> Here is what the Disklabel editor shows:
>
> Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs
> ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----
> wd0s2a <none> 32MB *
> wd0s2b swap 73MB SWAP
> wd0s2e <none> 30MB *
> wd0s2f <none> 1858MB *
> wd0s3 <none> 1993MB DOS
> wd0s4 <none> 1779MB DOS
>
> Notice that there is no wds1 ( The formere Win 95 partition).
>
> Here is what the disk slice editor shows:
>
> Offset Size End Name PType Desc
Subtype
> Flags
> 0 4188240 4188239 - 6 unused 0
> 4188240 4082400 8270639 wd0s2 3 freebsd
165
> C
> 8270640 4082400 12353039 wd0s3 2 fat
6
> 12353040 3643920 15996959 wd0s4 2 fat
6
>>
> 15996960 10080 16007039 - 6 unused
0
>>
>
> remeber there being an addationl partition 0f 63 blocks
size, at
> the
> begining of the disk when I started this, but I cannot
figure out
> how
> to recreate it. I assume that this is where the NT bootloader
> lived,
> and that the FreeBSD bootloader is smart enough to detect the
> presence/ansence of this.
>
> How can I reinstall this?
>
> I desprately need to make this work, as the alternative is to
> totally
> reinstall everyting on the machien, and the corporate powers
that
> be
> may use this as an excuse to make me tow the line, and
install NT
> only
> so that it can "supported"
>
> Please help.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com
> 404-996-6955
> Factory Automation Systems
> Atlanta Ga.
> --
> Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy!
> Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer
> (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is
> prohibited.
>
>
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