Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:14:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Kurt Joseph Windisch <kurtw@uoregon.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kurtw@antc.uoregon.edu Subject: Messed up boot MBR? Boot loaders failing Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.9909081054070.3138-100000@network-services.uoregon.edu>
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Here's the problem: BootMgr or any other boot loader I've tried (incl. OS-BS) crashes the system and restarts anytime I select my FreeBSD partition for booting. Furthermore, the standard windows boot loader (reinstalled with fdisk /mbr) ALSO crashes! (whereas I can start windows okay from BootMgr) Some Background: Naturally, it didn't just start this out of the blue...here's the twisted tale. I run windows95 and Freebsd on this system. I recently reinstalled freebsd, upgrading it to 3.2 from 2.6. In doing so I wiped the old freebsd partition and recreated it for 3.2. After doing this, and having everything work fine, I let my windows virus scanner (Norton) "repair" my modified MBR for the drive and the boot record for C: (this was the big mistake). Now windows will only boot from BootMgr (not it's own MBR) and Freebsd will only boot from a boot disk. Can anyone take a stab at this? I suspect that my partition tables in the MBR are now somehow wrong but, if this is the case, I don't know how to restore them without wiping my freebsd partition. Please address responses to me personally, as well as the list. Thanks a lot! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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