From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 16 17:21:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CE0A37B418 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:21:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19010 invoked by uid 100); 17 Nov 2001 01:21:15 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15349.48011.574498.508596@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:21:15 -0600 To: "Russell A. Khurshudian" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restoring boot manager In-Reply-To: <26132514@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Russell A. Khurshudian types: > How would i restore the FBSD boot manager after a win2k pro installation? I > tried running bootinst.exe boot.bin at the MS-DOS prompt but it gave me a > message > "An application has attempted to directly access the hard disk, which cannot > be supported. This may cause the application to function incorrectly." After > clicking ignore i proceeded and got the following message: "Error 128 > reading boot record from disk 0". Any suggestions? Hopefully, you can get XP to tag the FreeBSD partition as the active partition so that will boot. If not, you'll have to boot FreeBSD from a floppy. Having done so, you can use boot0cfg to reinstall the FreeBSD boot manager. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message