From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 10 14:44:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from post.webmailer.de (natpost.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E0537B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from buebo@buebo.de) Received: from mother (pD905528F.dip.t-dialin.net [217.5.82.143]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA07011; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:44:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <013601c10988$f19af0b0$c3fbfea9@mother> From: "Felix Kakrow" To: "Marcel Dijk" Cc: References: <86hewk4ily.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <009601c10982$14448d80$a8c133d5@cc13708a> Subject: Re: boot... Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:40:29 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2479.0006 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2479.0006 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you have a Microsoft Boot Disk (for example the Windows 9x CD) boot it, and start your Computer in a Dos Modus and type "fdisk /mbr) that should delete any Bootmanager from that Disk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcel Dijk" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:51 PM Subject: boot... > Hello, > > This afternoon I added a disk to my FreeBSD machine. And then I made a > mistake. I was creating partitions on the new disk with /stand/systinstall > (fdisk) and after that I accidently chose BOOR MANAGER instead odf MBR, what > I wanted. Now my machine doesn't boot anymore. I get to see: > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Invalid partition > Default 0:ad(0,a)/ad0 > Boot: > > I am/was running FreeBSD 4.2. What am I supposed to do now, to make it boot > again. I DID NOT change anything on the exsisting disk. I only created > partitions on the new disk and accidently chose BOOT MANAGER instead of MBR. > > Thanks, eveything I need is on that machine so it has to work... > > Marcel > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message