From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 14:23:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0416D37BAC3 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:23:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.84.47]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000612212349.WKJD290.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:23:49 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01325; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:23:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:23:42 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: HELP! I broke my ulti boot machine :-( Message-ID: <20000612222342.A233@parish> References: <200006122008.NAA16724@netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006122008.NAA16724@netcom.com>; from stanb@netcom.com on Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:08:10PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:08:10PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > Hi, > > I have a laptop that I use for work it has an 8G hard drive which I had > partitions as follows: > > 2G Win 95 > 2G FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE > 2G Win NT > 2G FAT > > Up intill I started changing things, it worked as follows. When I > booted I was Fresented with a menu that looked like this: > > F1 DOS > F2 FreeBSD > f3 DOS > f$ DOS > > Now, actually only F1 and F2 really worked. F1 tooke mee to, what I > think was the NT bootloader, where I could choose from NT, NT failsafe > mode, and Windows (95). > > I decided that I really was not using the 95 for anything, and I was > runing out of space for FreeBSD files. So I decided to remove the > initial partion. I went inot /stand/sysinstall, and went to "Post > Install". Then i visited bothe the Disk Label, and Disk Slice editor. I > remeber that there was an inital 63block sector, then the above parts. > > At the moment I ahve the following: > > Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size > Newfs > ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- > ----- > wd0s2a 32MB * > wd0s2b swap 73MB SWAP > wd0s2e 30MB * > wd0s2f 1858MB * > wd0s3 1993MB DOS > wd0s4 1779MB DOS > > As seen in the Disk label editor, and the following: > > DISK Geometry: 1058 cyls/240 heads/63 sectors = 15996960 sectors > > Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype > > 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 > > > > As seen in the disk slice editor. > > If I reboot the machine I am presented with the following choices: > > F2 FreeBSD > f3 DOS > f$ DOS > > And can sucesfully boot inot FreeBSD (thanks heavens). However, I > obviously have no way to get the NT partition. > > HELP, PLEAS! I need to be able to fix the ?boot loader? or MBR, or > whatever the magic is that makes this work. > > I am pretty desperate, as this is my main work machine, and I do need > to be able to access my NT stuff, because of work demnads. > I'm not sure how to repair this, but you can of course mount an NTFS partition in FreeBSD. At least that will allow you to copy your data off. > If anyone can give me some guidance on how to fix this, I will be > _very_ greatful! > > > > > -- > 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Want a lean, mean, computing machine? Get rid of that FAT - install FreeBSD ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message