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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, MEMPHISTO wrote:

>  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". 

That sounds like classic Microsoft at work, hosing the boot systems.  

> 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). 

You couldn't access any partition at all?

> 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. 

Well, if NT destroyed the partition data, then, well, it's gone unless you
have a backup.

Do the slices appear in FDISK?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major