From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 4 06:21:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA09792 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 06:21:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from caesar.elte.hu (caesar.elte.hu [157.181.42.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA09787 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 06:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by caesar.elte.hu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA25480; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:13:20 +0200 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:13:20 +0200 (METDST) From: MEMPHISTO To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD crash Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I'm writing this letter, because I "succesfully" crashed my FreeBSD system with a Windows NT and an OPeNSTEP on my machine. I installed Caldera's OpenDOS to replace an existing version of it. I knew it would ruin Windows NT's bootstrapper, but I thought that as earlier I can correct it by the 'repair Windows NT' in the WinNT install or simply saving the C: partition's bootsector and, after the install replacing the original bootsector to its original place. I chose the second way. After doing it, the NT couldn't boot, because of "incorrect boot device". Then I tried to boot both of the BSD's (Openstep and FreeBSD) but they couldn't boot, too, and it seems like, that FreeBSD has lost its disklabel infromation (I tried to fix it with the FreeBSD boot/fixit disks, but I didn't succeed, I even couldn't mount the DOS partition). I use a FreeBSD RELEASE-2.1.5. The harddisk is a QUANTUM BigFoot 2.5G HD, with three partitions, the first is a DOS/VFAT partition for OpenDOS/Windows NT, the second is for FreeBSD, there are / (root), /usr, /var (FreeBSD) partititions in it, the third is for OpenStep. I'd be very thankful if anyone could help me. Thanks in advance, Zoltan Sebestyen