Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:51:59 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Win2000 clobbered my boot sector Message-ID: <20011209184609.O6163-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0112090920590.11319-100000@echonyc.com>
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Ken Seggerman wrote: > Greetings: > > I have a machine with a 10GB drive and a 40GB drive. The > 10GB had Windows NT taking up the whole drive, and the > second drive is partitioned in two with FreeBSD > 4.3-STABLE, and Linux 2.4. > > All three co-existed on my machine, booteasy only saw NT > and FreeBSD, so I had to boot Linux from a floppy. > > I recently installed Windows 2000 Professional (to my > deep regret) and found that booteasy is gone, the old NT > OS Chooser is gone and I have no way to boot into > FreeBSD. Booting Linux from the floppy still works. > > Booting from a kern.flp, and interrupting the boot > sequence and typing in boot:1:ad(1,a) no longer works, > as it once did. > > Is there any way I can get FreeBSD back? I always could repair things like that by starting a FreeBSD installation from floppy. But all I did install was a new bootmanager. Regards, Uli. ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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