From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 02:43:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE4A16A4D5 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 02:43:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 796E043D1D for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 02:43:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: 02unTTgwMsn37H/R0tkk0A 1077878270 Received: from dialup-67.74.71.151.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net (dialup-67.74.71.151.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.71.151]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BE864C8F6; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 05:37:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 05:37:46 -0500 To: "Mark Weisman" , "Jerry McAllister" References: <88EB08D16800D34EA145D7DD2AA44998E651@minnie.outland> From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <88EB08D16800D34EA145D7DD2AA44998E651@minnie.outland> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.50 (Win32, build 3620) cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:43:22 -0000 On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:21:25 -0900, Mark Weisman wrote: > I've tried setting the MBR within fdisk from the FBSD side of the > house, however, it won't set. I go through all the motions, yet when it > goes to write it says that it can't write to drsk ad0. I then went into > a dos boot using a Windows98 boot disk and made the partition active, it > still will not boot into the Windows partition. For the life of me, I > cannot think of how to fix this. I need some help, any ideas? This is only a single hard drive with both XP and FreeBSD, I'm assuming. You can try three things: 1. Reinstall the FreeBSD bootloader and write the change; or 2. Boot from the Win floppy and type 'fdisk /mbr' (no quotes), or boot from the XP CD, go into the repair console and type 'fixboot' and 'fixmbr'; then reboot into FreeBSD and reinstall the FreeBSD bootloader; or 3. Do step 2, then boot into FreeBSD from the CD, go into post-install configuration, choose to install a normal MBR (not the FreeBSD bootloader), write the change, then install GAG (URL in previous message). There are other options as well, but these should be enough to burden you with for now. :) Jud