From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 8 21:55:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sh.stonehenge-net.com (dsl081-053-198.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.53.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B9337B401 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@stonehenge-net.com) Received: from stonehenge-net.com (dsl081-053-197.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.53.197]) by sh.stonehenge-net.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA01082 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:55:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3B721790.20008@stonehenge-net.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 21:54:40 -0700 From: ben User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010803 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to restore mbr using win2k? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 after hosing my win2k partition, i had to reinstall it. in the process, of course, it wiped my mbr, leaving me bsd-less. i've tried running tools/bootinst.exe boot.bin as suggested in sysinstall, but i get the following output. can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong? (yes, i've checked the archives, but they're apparently down atm.) $ bootinst.exe boot.bin Boot installer, version 1.7, Copyright (C) Serge Vakulenko This utility allows you to install new boot program on your hard disk. The usage is: bootinst [bootfile] It installs boot block from bootfile (default boot.bin) to the first drive and, if second drive is present, to the second drive. Old boot sectors are saved to bootsav.bin and boot2sav.bin respectively. You can copy and distribute this software free of charge, provided that sources are included. No warranty, of course. Continue with installation? (yes/no) yes Error 128 reading boot record from disk 0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message