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From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com>
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Subject: Re: Win2000 clobbered my boot sector
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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.


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