Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 10:21:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: mauro.castaldi@intercom.it (Mauro Castaldi) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deinstall FreeBSD Message-ID: <199603310821.KAA00188@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <315E777B.729D@intercom.it>
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> > Hi ! > > I have a quite serious problem. I used FIPS to get around 100 MB of free > space allocated to a FreeBSD partition on my second hard disk (IDE 420 > MB). This process made a backup of the boot sector of my harddisk and so > on. Now I messed up everything and the boot sector backup (about 1k) is > alone without any chance to boot up because I screwed the COMMAND.COM and > so on. Moreover, I really messed up my hard disk partition table and I > lost the 100 MB I have allocated to FreeBSD. So this is the situation : > - I've got the two ROOTBOOT.000 and ROOTBOOT.001 > - I've got 100 MB missing free space on drive D: (0x81) > - Everything runs fine as before the accident > > HELP ME ! I don't know what to do... :((( If it's getting rid of any FreeBSD bootloader and booting DOS again you can use a bootable DOS floppy disk with an FDISK on it, and type FDISK /MBR. > > -- > Bye. The Surfing Rabbit aka mauro.castaldi@intercom.it > WWW at http://www.intercom.it/~lr/ > Fidonet 2:331/116.11 - Cavaglio d'Agogna (NO) - Italy > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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