From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 19:29:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A29B37B401 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 19:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 245CC43F75 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 19:29:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (server1.internal [10.202.2.132]) by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A391D54B71; Sat, 31 May 2003 22:29:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Sat, 31 May 2003 22:29:04 -0400 X-Epoch: 1054434544 X-Sasl-enc: Tgf+IT3T7REbniaHPwGykQ Received: from jud.dyndns.org (dialup-67.74.79.153.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.79.153]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FF325881; Sat, 31 May 2003 22:29:01 -0400 (EDT) To: lukek , FreeBSD References: <007501c3271d$26c5fbf0$080aa8c0@yujo> <001c01c327d2$70ad0af0$300aa8c0@yujo> <002701c327d7$2241dee0$300aa8c0@yujo> Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed From: Jud MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 22:29:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <002701c327d7$2241dee0$300aa8c0@yujo> User-Agent: Opera7.10/Linux M2 build 395 Subject: Re: Doh ! Installed FBSD5.0 and no more dual boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 02:29:09 -0000 On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 09:45:44 +0900, lukek 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