Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:37:53 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win2000 clobbered my boot sector Message-ID: <3C13BD91.85962934@glue.umd.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0112090920590.11319-100000@echonyc.com>
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Ken Seggerman wrote: > Is there any way I can get FreeBSD back? You need to copy /boot1 to c:\bootsect.bsd and then add the following line to c:\boot.ini c:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" c:\boot.ini may not be visible from explorer depending on your folder settings. If you type the path into notepad's open dialog it will open just fine. Obviously you'll need a way to boot FreeBSD so you can get at /boot1. The problem here is that the Win2K installer sets its boot partition to be the only active, and therefore bootable, partition. Find a bootdisk that has fdisk on it (the win98 bootdisk works) and set the FreeBSD partition to be active, then reboot. The machine should go straight to FreeBSD. Then, as root, mount the win2k partition and copy /boot1 over to it. If you only have an NTFS partition, which AFAIK FreeBSD can't write to, then you'll have to find some other way to copy the file (floppy,zip,ls120,network...). http://www.bootdisk.com has images of just about every kind of bootdisk in case you don't have one handy. BTW, all of this info is in the mail archives. Which would be a lot more useful if they actually worked, but thats another story. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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