Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:05:34 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: barbish3@adelphia.net Subject: Re: recover HD boot mbr Message-ID: <b2807d0404082920356874770@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGCEEBGKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGCEEBGKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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Boot up the box using a recovery disk, err I guess its called a startup floppy in the M$ world, and run at command prompt fdisk /mbr It would warn about non standard MBR and stuff but go through it. You should be able to boot back into Win98. But coming back to the FreeBSD Issue, If you have got two partitions (as you stated) you should not be having any "F2". Could you just double check? Regards S. On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:50:49 -0400, JJB <barbish3@adelphia.net> wrote: > owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:47:14 -0400, fbsd_user > > <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > >> I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual > >> bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot > manager. > >> After the basic install I was able to boot 5.3 but did not test > boot > >> win98. I then did a 5.3 kernel recompile and booted the kernel. I > >> then tried to boot win98 by pressing F1 key and the boot process > >> just hangs. Rebooting and pressing F2 key for 5.3 also now hangs. > >> > >> Question = Is there any way to fix this problem without killing > the > >> win98 partition? I was thinking of installing this weeks 5.3 > beta2 > >> to see if that would correct the problem. Any suggestions sure > would > >> help. > >> > >> Thanks > >> > > What is your slicing, errr partitioning scheme? > > > > Regards > > S. > > > > 10GB ATA HD, 50% win98 followed by 50% FreeBSD > > -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India
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