From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 18:35:37 2002 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 E0E7E37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zapper.org (gso26-96-004.triad.rr.com [66.26.96.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AA843E75 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:35:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zapper@zapper.org) Received: from zapper.org (zapper@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zapper.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8I1YNTq069718 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:34:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from zapper@zapper.org) Received: (from zapper@localhost) by zapper.org (8.12.6/8.12.3/Submit) id g8I1YNpZ069717; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:34:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209180134.g8I1YNpZ069717@zapper.org> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:34:23 -0400 From: Daemon To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recovering ufs after fat games In-Reply-To: <20020917191941.B735@gicco.cablecom.ch> References: <20020914150855.A408@gicco.cablecom.ch> <44d6rfrx72.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20020915225042.A356@gicco.cablecom.ch> <44elbux8lq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20020917191941.B735@gicco.cablecom.ch> Organization: Ircee.Com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having the same problem ... followed the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DAMAGED-BOOT-MANAGER and did "Fixit# fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0" from the 4.6 CD "live filesystem". Now on reboot I get F3 = DOS F4 = FREEBSD If I choose "F4" I get nothing but a beep. If I choose "F3" it boots into windows. Any suggestions? Respectfully, Mark On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:19:41 +0200 Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Sep 16 at 11:22, Lowell Gilbert spoke: > > > There are several listed, but i was thinking of: > > > > Fixit# fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 bootdevice > > > > substituting bootdevice for your real boot device such as ad0 (first > > IDE disk), ad4 (first IDE disk on auxiliary controller), da0 (first > > SCSI disk), etc. > > > > in particular. > > I'll use this one next time. > > > Section 3, "Installation", includes the question > > "Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back?" > > Thanks for the hint. > > -Hanspeter > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- The FoxSurfer Group Admin FoxSurfer.Com FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message