From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 00:30:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA08334 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:30:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA08328 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:30:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.0-4 #13110) id <01I2ZEV650HS00008T@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:18:39 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA00188; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 10:21:27 +0200 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 10:21:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Subject: Re: Deinstall FreeBSD In-reply-to: <315E777B.729D@intercom.it> To: mauro.castaldi@intercom.it (Mauro Castaldi) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199603310821.KAA00188@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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